Anne Enright Quotes

Anne Enright — Irish Author born on October 11, 1962,

Anne Teresa Enright FRSL is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year... (wikipedia)

There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.

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.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. It's the people who are always on the brink of crisis who don't hit bottom who are in trouble.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.