Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A … - Anne Enright

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For a second I was just a kid – a kid who had lived all of his life in the same tiny town. Just a child. Because I knew I would have to live a lot more, suffer a lot more, to ever understand the searing agony in Edward’s eyes.

Anne Enright

Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.

Ears, Plot, Pulling, Reader, Stories, Telling

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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.

Book, Control, Fall, Quite, Writing

I am interested in silences

Interested, Silence, Silences

We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.

Art, Body, Small Gestures, Tenderness, Washing, Wiping

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

Cat, Check, Enough, Jump, Lap, Thinking

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

Instead, Real, Remember, Thinking