"Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die."
Anne Enright is an Irish novelist known for literary fiction and essays. She won the Booker Prize for The Gathering and has been a major voice in contemporary Irish literature.