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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.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Whatever
True
Ends
May
Best
Life

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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.
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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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