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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

Topics: Books Dark Dread Emerge Gap Gathering Kinds Monsters Often Secret Sense Sometimes Text Which

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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

~Anne Enright

Topics: About Distinctive Find Many Natural People Sentences Things Think Work Writing I Think

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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

Topics: After Any Big Book Darker Did Feel Gathering Great Great Book Hang Heard Honestly Me Over People Pressure Say Than Thought Time Winning Writers Wrote

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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

Topics: Big Bit Getting Like Me More Much Sentences Sound Starting Them Think Too Too Much

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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

Topics: Characters Everything Knowing Love Mischief More Not Knowing Reader Room Seriousness Than Them Too I Love

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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

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Topics: Happened Look Mainstream Never Wanted Writer

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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.

~Anne Enright

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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

Topics: Again Always Apart Bottom Brink Crisis Early Falls Hit Just Life People Put Together Trouble Who You Your

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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

Topics: Away Clear Disciplined Down Everything Feeling Get Much Need Obsessive Working

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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

Topics: Books Damn Five Four Had Kids Time Working Wrote Years

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: October 11th, 1962

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