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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

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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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Someone

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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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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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How plotless real life was!
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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I'm falling into disrepair
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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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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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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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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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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