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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
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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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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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