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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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... everyone must play his role.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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