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
writing thinking boots
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 side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
thinking people construction
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 be this, this, and this.
sex grief feelings
I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
children thinking class
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
talking doe drink
A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
cutting thinking eight
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.
believe evil way
I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
children kids perfect
My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
book writing pages
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.
trying stuff accuracy
Try to be accurate about stuff.
dream men lines
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.
way-forward people fiction
People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
writing thinking good-writing
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
real writing what-matters
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.