Anne Enright Quotes

That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

I was such an idiot until the age of 28.

The fact is that this conversation is going on at every level at every age, we're all going, "God, what a jerk I've been," "How could I have married that guy?" or "How could I have done this or that?" With time, this is the gift of being older, that you get to look back and say, "It wasn't all about them."

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

I wish," he said, "I had known at eighteen what I know now - that there are some things on which one does not compromise.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

I learned from my past.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

If I'd trusted myself and listened to myself all the times that I ignored myself, I would have been fine. But everyone has to learn their lesson, and now I've got it.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

We do things in our past that we need to do at the time.