I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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
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…
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.
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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