Author: Anne Enright

Quotes

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.

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

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

- Anne Enright

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.

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.

- Anne Enright

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

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

- Anne Enright

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

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

- Anne Enright

There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.

There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.

- Anne Enright

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.

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

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.

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

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