Quotes by Anne Enright

Anne Enright

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

Doe

Drink

Talking

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

Judged

Novel

Written

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.

Boots

Thinking

Writing

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find–blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

Blood

Nails

Needs

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

Cat

Lap

Thinking

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Opinion

World

Writing

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

Book

Kids

Years

Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i’ll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.

Games

Hate

Play

I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling – somewhere between diarrhoea and sex – this grief that is almost genital.

Feelings

Grief

Sex

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?

Phones

Talking

Thinking

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Alive

Art

Be Kind

Believe

Blood

Body

Book

Boots

Cancer

Cat

Change

Children

Clear

Clever

Daughter

Different

Doe

Down And

Dream

Drink

Dying

Fall

Falling In Love

Feelings

Games

Good Writing

Grandparent

Grief

Growing Up

Happened

Has Beens

Hate

Heart

Home

Ideas

Judged

Kids

Lap

Leaving

Left

Lines

Littles

Looks

Mainstream

Mars

Men

Mind

My Own

Nails

Needs

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Quotes by Anne Enright

Anne Enright

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.

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.

Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find–blood, nails, a bit of anguish.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.

I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling – somewhere between diarrhoea and sex – this grief that is almost genital.

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