148 Quotes by Anne Enright

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.

One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.

There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.