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

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Closeness
Son
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Doe
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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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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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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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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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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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'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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