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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
Never
Believed
Quite
Chance

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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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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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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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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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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 think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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How plotless real life was!
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... everyone must play his role.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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My stories are never quite good enough
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