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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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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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... everyone must play his role.
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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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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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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 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 call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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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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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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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 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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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 write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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