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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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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 is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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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 spend about a year between novels
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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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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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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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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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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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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