Anne Enright Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.”

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

“I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.”

“I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.”

“I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.”

“In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.”

“To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.”

“When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.”

“I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.”

“I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way.”