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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
Minnesota
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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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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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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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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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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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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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 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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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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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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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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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