Anne Enright Quotes

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

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

Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

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

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

I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me.

Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.

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

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.