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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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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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 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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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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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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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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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