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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 forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details any good lie does.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Anne Tyler