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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Woman
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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I spend about a year between novels
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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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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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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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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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've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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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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