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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
Best
Life
Whatever
True
Ends
May

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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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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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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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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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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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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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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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