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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
Wrong
Upon
Woman
Persons
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Time
Discovered
Turned

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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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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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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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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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