Top 36 D J Enright Quotes
#1. People do not change, they are merely revealed.
#2. I wait for the kind of sense that dawn makes, when you have not slept.
#3. Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
#4. Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.
#5. Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
#6. I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met.
#7. marriage protects your love in the moments of non-love.
#8. A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
#9. My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
#10. I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.
#11. I loved the flash of jewels and the luster of satin. In those days women dressed.
#12. There's no such thing as a life that is not normal, or, there's no such thing as a life that is not abnormal. We all have amazing lives; we all have very dull lives.
#13. 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.
#14. Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
#15. I am interested in silences
#16. There often is a dark secret in books ... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.
#17. And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
#18. An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
#19. Churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer,
#20. There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit.
#21. I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
#22. If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
#23. You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.
#24. I think acting is revealing to people what it means to be human.
#25. All children are beautiful: the thing they do with their eyes that seems so dazzling when they take you all in, or seem to take you all in; it's like being looked at by an alien, or a cat - who knows what they see?
#26. A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
#27. Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.
#28. Writing is mostly a case of mood management. The emotion you have is not absolute, it is temporary. It may be useful, but it is not the truth. It is not you.
#29. 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.
#30. People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
#31. In Nina Kimbereley's garden the scabiosa flowers were dark as garnet brooches; the nicotiana a veil of tossing crimson stars. Nothing was usual, or a dull color. All was exceptional, designed to be exceptional since it had been planned as the background for a beauty by the beauty.
#32. All I asked for was equality and independence. A rotating chairmanship might have been the answer.
#33. He had beautiful manners. Which, if you ask me, was mostly a question of saying nothing, to anyone, ever.
#34. I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
#35. I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
#36. Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party.
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