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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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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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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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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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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 is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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 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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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