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The path your words make as you herd them across the page is the only viable route, after all. — Anne Enright

I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept. — Anne Enright

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. — Anne Enright

He slept like a shout. — Anne Enright

I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped. — Anne Enright

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find
blood, nails, a bit of anguish. — Anne Enright

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened. — Anne Enright

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next. — Anne Enright

You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them. — 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. — Anne Enright

People do not change, they are merely revealed. — Anne Enright

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it. — Anne Enright

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety. — Anne Enright

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

I have been falling for months. I have been falling into my own life, for months. And I am about to hit it now. — Anne Enright

And dusk fell because it suited his skin. — Anne Enright

He dribbled noise. — Anne Enright

But was talking aloud allowed? — Anne Enright

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. — Anne Enright

Paused in the ineluctable presence of the other, and inhaled. — Anne Enright

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice. — Anne Enright

I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. — Anne Enright

There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible. — Anne Enright

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately. — Anne Enright

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced. — Anne Enright

Do not sigh, do not weep! — Anne Enright

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

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution. — Anne Enright

Because that is what your babies do, when they grow. They turn around and say it is all your fault. — Anne Enright

Try to be accurate about stuff. — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad — Anne Enright

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. — Anne Enright

Has the rain a father ...
What womb brings forth the ice?
- Job: 38 — Anne Enright

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require. — Anne Enright

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life. — Anne Enright

Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke. — Anne Enright

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from. — Anne Enright

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. — Anne Enright

Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar. — Anne Enright

Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. — Anne Enright

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. — Anne Enright

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense. — Anne Enright

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from. — Anne Enright

Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad. — Anne Enright

I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met. — Anne Enright

He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever. — Anne Enright

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed. — Anne Enright

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy. — Anne Enright

I am interested in silences — 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

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 find. — Anne Enright

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat. — Anne Enright

It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife. — Anne Enright

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised — Anne Enright

I have no place left to live but in my own heart. — Anne Enright