Anne Enright Quotes About Ireland

Quotes about: Ireland

• I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

  Anne Enright

  Lovely, Old Fashioned, Raised

  "Anne Enright, Author, Answers Questions About ‘The Forgotten Waltz’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

• In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

  Anne Enright

  Grandparent, Surnames, Static

  "Author, author: Name that plume" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

• 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

  Clever, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Writing, Giving, Fiction

• If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.

  Anne Enright

  Growing Up, Believe, Book

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