I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
Anne EnrightThere are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
Anne EnrightThe writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
Anne Enright