Anne Enright
Anne Enright
Anne Teresa Enright FRSLis an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 October 1962
CountryIreland
very-happy has-beens
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
thinking people might
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
character knowing-everything rooms
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.
looks mainstream wanted
I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
character writing thinking
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
wall book writing
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 stop the light hitting the computer.
writing ideas be-kind
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. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day.
book who-i-am two
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 they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
cancer mind littles
There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
hate people i-hate
God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
people alive way
There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
writing thinking worry
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
writing reason
One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
fall together-again people
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.