Quotes by Writing I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening. Anne Carson acceptancewritingthinking Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed. Anne Clark takenneededwriting Only bad writers think that their work is really good. Anne Enright good-writingwritingthinking You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible. Anne Enright writingjobsbook Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. Anne Enright opinionwritingworld Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity. Anne Enright what-mattersrealwriting 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. Anne Enright pageswritingbook I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing. Anne Enright worrywritingthinking One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised Anne Enright reasonwriting The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book. Anne Enright writingbookpeople 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. Anne Enright bootswritingthinking I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural. Anne Enright writingpeoplethinking I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be. Anne Enright writingcharacterthinking Writing is not my problem, it is my solution. Anne Enright solutionsproblemwriting The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there. Anne Enright writinglongway 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. Anne Enright writinggivingfiction 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. Anne Enright be-kindwritingideas 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. Anne Enright wallwritingbook 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. Anne Enright cleverwritingthinking To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy. Anne Enright down-andspacewriting«7879808182838485868788»
