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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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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 read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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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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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details any good lie does.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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