My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.” — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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 Image
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
