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When you have children, you're obligated to live.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Children
Obligated
Live

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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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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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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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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 write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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How plotless real life was!
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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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