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.
More Quotes by Anne Enright
I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.