Literary Birthday – 11 October – Anne Enright

Happy Birthday, Anne Enright, born 11 October 1962.

Anne Enright Quotes

1. Being a writer is mostly a question of typing.
2. They say writers are good at solitude but I think we are just tenacious. It can take years to complete a novel.
3. The best advice I ever received was from my mother: never use a big word when a small one will do.
4. My advice to anyone who wants to write is to get over yourself.
5. I wrote every day for 30 years, even on weekends. My schedule has changed somewhat since becoming Laureate for Irish Fiction but I still believe in chipping away at it.

READ: Anne Enright’s 10 Rules For Writing Fiction

Anne Enright is an Irish author. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work. Other novels include The Forgotten Waltz (2011) and The Green Road (2015), which was one of the Guardian’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

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by Amanda Patterson

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