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
thinking phones talking
I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
clever writing thinking
I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
thinking people might
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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.
writing thinking worry
I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
thinking too-much narrators
I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.
writing thinking people
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
real thinking remember
I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
cat thinking lap
Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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.
children thinking class
I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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.
writing thinking good-writing
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.