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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Inhabited
Fuller
Wished
Filled
Used
Better
Life

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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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