Anne Enright Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Anne Enright
Anne Enright Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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 love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
I have been falling for months. I have been falling into my own life, for months. And I am about to hit it now.
Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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.
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
I see her on a Sunday after lunch, and we spend a pleasant afternoon, and when I leave I find she has run through me like water.
The only way to write a book, I'm fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That's how you write a book.
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.
Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.