Best Anne Enright Quotes
- I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. Absolute
- If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense. Actually Let
- In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. From
- It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life. Effect
- 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… Day
- To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy. Able
- When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down. Clear
- 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 phone,… Articulate
- I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and… American
- I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to… Book
- I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote.… Anywhere
- I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and… Book
- I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly,… Big
- I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I… Aware
- I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big… Any
- If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a… Attempt
- You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job.… Book
- A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced. Experienced
- I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. Distinctive
- People do not change, they are merely revealed. Change
- And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like… All
- There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is… All
- I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead Any
- We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice. Always Like
- I have no place left to live but in my own heart. Funny