Quotes by : Anne Enright

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

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The....

Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though,....

He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in....

I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes....

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

Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly....

Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It....

I didn't say any of this to my sister. How I saw her being broken into mediocrity and motherhood; her....

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed.....