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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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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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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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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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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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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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