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

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Always
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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... everyone must play his role.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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