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… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in… — 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
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
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
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
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice. — 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
And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone.… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on 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
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
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
