When I’m working, I’m not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down. Anne Enright Read Quote
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. Anne Enright Read Quote
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. Anne Enright Read Quote
I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since. Anne Enright Read Quote
I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There’s more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too. Anne Enright Read Quote
I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. Anne Enright Read Quote
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. Anne Enright Read Quote
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. Anne Enright Read Quote
Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in ‘Old Ireland.’ It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can’t think of anything else for definite. Anne Enright Read Quote
