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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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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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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'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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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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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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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 think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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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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