"The way to write a book is to……" — Anne Enright
"The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page."
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55 Quotes by Anne Enright
Anne Enright has 55 quotes on this site.
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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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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that…
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I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about…
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We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them…
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The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how…
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I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano,
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Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for…
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I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way…
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