I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There often is a dark secret in books... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative,… — Anne Enright Copy Share
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… — Anne Enright Copy Share
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed… — Anne Enright Copy Share
I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead — Anne Enright Copy Share
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way. — Anne Enright Copy Share
“Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.” — Anne Enright Copy Share
Sometimes I will spend two or three days not speaking to anyone outside of the immediate family when they come home, and then I… — Anne Enright Copy Share
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same. — Anne Enright Copy Share
I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going… — Anne Enright Copy Share
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… — Anne Enright Copy Share
My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with… — Anne Enright Copy Share
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat. — Anne Enright Copy Share
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. — Anne Enright Copy Share
