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Thinking Quotes by Anne Enright
- Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
- Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
- And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and…
- I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to…
- I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to…
- I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
- I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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,…
- I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
- I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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