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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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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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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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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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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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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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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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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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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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