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Anne Enright is an Irish author born on October 11, 1962. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and critical exploration of social issues. Enright has won numerous literary awards, including the Booker Prize in 2007 for her novel 'The Gathering'.

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“I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Might Worry Strange

Author:Anne Enright

“If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.”

People Ifs Together Fall Trouble Crisis Bottom Falling Apart Together Again

Author:Anne Enright

“Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.”

People Ifs Firsts Wells Children Able Names Speak Secret Nice Safe What If Suspects

Author:Anne Enright

“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.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Ends Fall Too Much The End Of The Day Nerves Panic Falling Apart

Author:Anne Enright

“Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.”

Ifs Years May Doe Remember Weekend Temper Desks Counting

Author: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. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.”

People Ifs Want Important Hands Running Fall Given Daughter Sticks Fingers Falling In Love Forty My Daughter Nineteen

Book:The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

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

Ifs Thinking Enough Cold Cat Checks Lap

Author:Anne Enright

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Facts Sides Tales Settling Boots Settling Down

Author:Anne Enright

“Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.”

Ifs Book Self Dies Easy Imagine Week Dying Disease Arguing Why Not Annoying Imagine That Terminal Terminal Disease

Author:Anne Enright

“If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.”

Ifs Character Bits

Author:Anne Enright

“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?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Different Voice Interesting Levels Brain Talking Bed Starting Phones Discourse Narrators Different Voices

Author:Anne Enright

“If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.”

Ifs Knows Believe Stills Book Choices Grows Growing Up Doubt Ireland Believe In Me Obliged

Author:Anne Enright

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Born: October 11, 1962
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Quotes: 83

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