If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books. - Anne Enright
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
I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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
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…
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life. - Anne Enright
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
Writing is not my problem, it is my solution. - Anne Enright
Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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 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…
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced. - Anne Enright
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice. - Anne Enright
We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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
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…
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