Manners Quote by Anne Enright

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

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

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

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

— Anne Enright

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

“Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.”

— Anne Enright

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

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

— Anne Enright

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

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

— 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…

— Anne Enright

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

— Anne Enright