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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
People
Closeness
Son
Close
Doe
Never

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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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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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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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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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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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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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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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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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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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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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