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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Attracts
Putting
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Thing

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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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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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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write 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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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 didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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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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