When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

- Anne Enright

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

- Anne Enright

There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especi…

- Anne Enright

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touc…

- Anne Enright

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

- Anne Enright

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

- Anne Enright

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

- Anne Enright

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or ho…

- Anne Enright

Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.

- Anne Enright