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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
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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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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How plotless real life was!
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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 my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know 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 do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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