I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead — 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
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey… — 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
I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut… — 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
Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a… — 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
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
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice… — 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
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. — 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 think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — 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
