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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Believed
Quite
Chance
Never

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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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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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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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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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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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