"I work at the sentences. Many of the……" — Anne Enright
"I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural."
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55 Quotes by Anne Enright
Anne Enright has 55 quotes on this site.
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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good.…
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It…
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do…
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly…
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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with…
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing…
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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them…
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have…
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
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More Distinctive Quotes
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous…
— Ruben Blades
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are…
— Sandra Cisneros
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The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a…
— Carl G. Fisher
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work…
— Northrop Frye
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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said…
— Ronald Reagan
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
— Benjamin E. Mays
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The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our…
— Ravi Zacharias
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