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
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
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
“Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.” — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
“There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing, or what I have done - nothing mostly,… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. — 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
