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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
He slept like a shout.
— Anne Enright
Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I findblood, nails, a bit of anguish. — 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
Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it.
— Elizabeth Enright
The kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next.
— Anne Enright
Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.
— Elizabeth Enright
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
— Anne Enright
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
— 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
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
— Anne Enright
Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.
— Elizabeth Enright
Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party.
— Elizabeth Enright
And for heaven's sake don't play Bach," ordered Randy. "It's so jumpy for today." Rush
— Elizabeth Enright
Someday she planned to paint he ceiling: Blue, with gold stars on it, whole constellations, and a section of the Milky Way.
— Elizabeth 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
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
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
— Anne Enright
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
— Anne Enright
Editing is like pruning the rose bush you thought was so perfect and beautiful until it overgrew the garden.
— Larry Enright
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
— Anne Enright
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
— Anne Enright
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
— 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
Churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer,
— Elizabeth 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
Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
— Anne Enright
He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.
— 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
marriage protects your love in the moments of non-love.
— Lynn Enright
Each golden day was cherished to the full, for one had the feeling that each must be the last. Tomorrow it would be winter.
— Elizabeth Enright
Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke.
— Anne Enright
I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad
— 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
Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.
— Anne Enright
I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.
— Anne Enright
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
— 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
I am interested in silences
— Anne Enright
October sunshine bathed the park with such a melting light that it had the dimmed impressive look of a landscape by an old master.
— Elizabeth Enright
I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.
— Elizabeth Enright
I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
— Anne Enright
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
— 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
All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
— D. J. Enright
Do not sigh, do not weep!
— Anne Enright
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
— Anne Enright
Good things must have comparers, I suppose,' said Portia, 'Or how would we knowhow good they are?
— Elizabeth 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
It was a delicate business, being the Not Wife.
— Anne Enright
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
— Anne Enright
One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
— Anne Enright
A certain red cardinal sounded like a little bottle being filled up, up, up with some clear liquid.
— Elizabeth Enright
I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
— Anne Enright
No matter how old a person gets, he's never old in spring!
— Elizabeth Enright
