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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
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Woman
Persons
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Time
Discovered
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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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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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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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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