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• To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Space, Down And

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• The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.

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  Writing, Long, Way

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• One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

  Anne Enright

  Writing, Reason

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• The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

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  Want

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.156, Random House

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• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

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  Wall, Book, Writing

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• Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

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  Plot, Stories, Ears

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

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  Weekend, Years, May

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, Diana Athill, Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Helen Dunmore, Geoff Dyer, Anne Enright, Richard Ford, Jonathan Franzen, Esther Freud, Neil Gaiman, David Hare, PD James, AL Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Try to be accurate about stuff.

  Anne Enright

  Trying, Stuff, Accuracy

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

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  Blood, Nails, Needs

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.228, Random House

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• People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

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  Way Forward, People, Fiction

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

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  Fall, Together Again, People

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• Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I find that I've been emailing like fury. Once you give in to that silence, it's quite nice.

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  Nice, Home, Two

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

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  Thinking, People, Might

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• I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

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  Children, Thinking, Class

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.

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  Book, Winning, People

  "Anne Enright: 'I was always on the side. Like a salad'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.

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• Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

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  Crazy, Team, Kids

  Interview with Conan Putnam, www.believermag.com. January, 2014.

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• I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

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  Writing, Thinking, Worry

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• I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

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  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Anne Enright: 'Love is a great punishment for desire'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

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  Change, Mars, Powerless

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• There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.

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  Cancer, Mind, Littles

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• And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.

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  Writing, Thinking, Boots

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• I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.

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  Believe, Evil, Ordinary

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• We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

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  Art, Small Gestures, Body

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.128, Random House

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• Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.

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  Hate, Games, Play

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