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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
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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How plotless real life was!
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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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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... everyone must play his role.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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