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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
Ends
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Thing

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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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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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How plotless real life was!
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good 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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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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 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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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