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
book writing people
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.
thinking people might
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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.
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.
book winning people
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
people choices
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
writing thinking people
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
white people use
And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see.
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.
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.
people
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
apart bottom brink early falls hit life people
If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.
character ifs bits
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.