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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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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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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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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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 spend about a year between novels
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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How plotless real life was!
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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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I'm falling into disrepair
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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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