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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
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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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.
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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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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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 hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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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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