People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend. — 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
