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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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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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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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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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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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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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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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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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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 consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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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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