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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Disrepair
Falling
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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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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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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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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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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