People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
Anne EnrightIf your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
Anne EnrightFor 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
Anne EnrightIn more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
Anne EnrightThere are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen, count the people you love on one hand, you will not, at forty, have run out of fingers on the other. There are so few people given us to love and they all stick.
Anne Enright