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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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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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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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'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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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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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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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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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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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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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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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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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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... everyone must play his role.
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