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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
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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... everyone must play his role.
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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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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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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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's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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