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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
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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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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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 just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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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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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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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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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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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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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 read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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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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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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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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