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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
~ Anne Enright
Books
Damn
Five
Four
Had
Kids
Time
Working
Wrote
Years
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
~ Anne Enright
Am
Articulate
Bed
Brain
Coming
Different
Discourse
Head
How
I Am
Interested
Interesting
Know
Levels
Narrator
Off
Part
Phone
Starting
Talking
Think
Voice
Voices
Where
You
Your
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
~ Anne Enright
Anybody
Became
Been
Full-Time
Happy
Insofar
Since
Very
Writer
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
~ Anne Enright
About
Absolutely
Anything
Irish
Irish People
Might
People
Say
Think
True
You
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
~ Anne Enright
Because
Being
Construction
Find
Going
Irish
Much
People
Quite
Social
Takes
Thing
Think
Wearing
Work
You
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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
~ Anne Enright
Characters
Everything
I Love
Knowing
Love
Mischief
More
Not Knowing
Reader
Room
Seriousness
Than
Them
Too
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
~ Anne Enright
Happened
Look
Mainstream
Never
Wanted
Writer
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I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
~ Anne Enright
Better
Character
Characters
Flawed
I Think
Important
Should
Than
Think
Very
Woman
Write
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
~ Anne Enright
I Was Raised
Ireland
Lovely
Old
Old-Fashioned
Raised
Very
Were
Where
Women
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
~ Anne Enright
About
Distinctive
Find
I Think
Many
Natural
People
Sentences
Things
Think
Work
Writing
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.
~ Anne Enright
About
Anywhere
Be Kind
Day
Disturbed
Everything
Filled
Had
Hard
I Write
Idea
Kind
Precious
Quiet
Really
Used
Where
Write
Wrote
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I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
~ Anne Enright
Absolute
Come
Interested
Monsters
Narrative
Quite
Roots
Stories
Tell
Where
Why
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I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
~ Anne Enright
Am
Around
Between
Book
Confuse
Difference
I Am
Issues
Know
Lucky
Me
People
Really
Two
Who
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I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
~ Anne Enright
Big
Bit
Getting
Like
Me
More
Much
Sentences
Sound
Starting
Them
Think
Too
Too Much
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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.
~ Anne Enright
After
Any
Big
Book
Darker
Did
Feel
Gathering
Great
Great Book
Hang
Heard
Honestly
Me
No-One
Over
People
Pressure
Say
Than
Thought
Time
Winning
Writers
Wrote
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If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
~ Anne Enright
Actually
Bit
Character
Get
Just
Right
Sense
Then
You
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
~ Anne Enright
Am
Attempt
Believe
Books
Choice
Days
Doubts
Exactly
Grow
Grow Up
I Am
Ireland
Know
Me
Obliged
Own
Read
Really
Some
Still
Then
Time
Up
Writer
You
Your
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.
~ Anne Enright
Again
Always
Apart
Bottom
Brink
Crisis
Early
Falls
Hit
Just
Life
People
Put
Together
Trouble
Who
You
Your
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Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.
~ Anne Enright
Anything
Anything Else
Back
Been
Believed
Celtic
Deciding
Definite
Else
Friendly
Green
Has-Been
Ireland
Irish
Kitsch
Looking
Looking Back
Made
National
Never
Old
Revival
Series
Starting
Stories
Think
Us
Yes
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Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
~ Anne Enright
About
Boring
Boring Thing
Could
Early
Early 20s
Happen
Here
I Think
Like
Marriage
Most
Now
Person
Proven
Put
Read
Recently
Stories
Thing
Think
Volume
Woman
Worst
Worst Thing
Writing
Wrong
Wrote
Young
Young Woman
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