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? Anne Enright Read Quote
There’s no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there’s no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives. Anne Enright Read Quote
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense. Anne Enright Read Quote
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. Anne Enright Read Quote
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. Anne Enright Read Quote
If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don’t know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts. Anne Enright Read Quote
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy. Anne Enright Read Quote
There often is a dark secret in books… There is often a gathering sense of dread; there’s a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge. Anne Enright Read Quote
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. Anne Enright Read Quote