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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Disrepair
Falling
Fall

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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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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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 write because I want to have more than one life.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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 read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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