"The writing day can be, in some ways,……" — Anne Enright
"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 there is a stillness there."
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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 Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
— Aristotle
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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