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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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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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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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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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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 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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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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