Writing Quotes by Anne Enright

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.

Boots

Thinking

Writing

Anne Enright

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Opinion

World

Writing

Anne Enright

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.

Clever

Thinking

Writing

Anne Enright

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.

Book

Wall

Writing

Anne Enright

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

People

Thinking

Writing

Anne Enright

I write anywhere – when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

Be Kind

Ideas

Writing

Anne Enright

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Good Writing

Thinking

Writing

Anne Enright

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

Book

Pages

Writing

Anne Enright

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

Down And

Space

Writing

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Alive

Art

Be Kind

Believe

Blood

Body

Book

Boots

Cancer

Cat

Change

Children

Clear

Clever

Daughter

Different

Doe

Down And

Dream

Drink

Dying

Fall

Falling In Love

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Games

Good Writing

Grandparent

Grief

Growing Up

Happened

Has Beens

Hate

Heart

Home

Ideas

Judged

Kids

Lap

Leaving

Left

Lines

Littles

Looks

Mainstream

Mars

Men

Mind

My Own

Nails

Needs

Nice

Novel

Opinion

Pages

People

Phones

Play

Powerless

Real

Remember

Running

Safe

Self

Sex

Silence

Small Gestures

Space

Static

Surnames

Talking

Thinking

Together Again

Two

Very Happy

Wall

Want

Wanted

World

Writing

Written

Years

Writing Quotes by 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.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

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.

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.

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

I write anywhere – when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

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

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