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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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 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 can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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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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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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