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.
writing long way
The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
writing space able
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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.
writing problem solutions
Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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.
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
book fall writing
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
writing giving matter
I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.
jobs book writing
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
writing thinking people
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.