Quotes by Anne Enright

Anne Enright

Irish writer

Lived from: 1962 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: Ireland

Born: 11 october 1962

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• A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

  Source: De samenkomst (2010) 55

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• I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead.

  Source: De samenkomst (2010) 66

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

  Source: De samenkomst (2010) 178

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• I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

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• If you try to control it too much, the book is dead.

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

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• Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

  Source: Ten rules for writing fiction (2010)

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

  Source: De samenkomst (2010) 110

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Subjects in these quotes:

• incredible
• remember
• children
• western
• classes
• objects

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