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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Awful
Beings
Human
Humans
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Dealing

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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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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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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 didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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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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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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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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How plotless real life was!
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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