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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Crummy
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Novel
Literature
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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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