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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
Quite
Chance
Never
Believed

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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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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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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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