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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
Someone
Thing

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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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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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