Quotes About Anne Enright

I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her body broken and then her mind - or did her mind go first, it's sort of hard to disentangle - and then for her to turn around and say Broken is Best, I didn't say how that made me furious beyond measure.

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.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.