148 Quotes by Anne Enright

He slept like a shout.

If you think about it, the youngest part of the tree is in the very middle. It is the little dot that will widen into a ring, next year. The youngest part of any tree is the heart.

I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There’s more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you’re telling a story you’re telling it into someone’s ear.

I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad.

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

Just the way all mothers are crazy to their daughters, all mothers are wrong.

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