To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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
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
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
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should… — 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
I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense… — 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
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. — 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
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not… — 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
And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and… — 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
I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like… — 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
