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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.

Anne Tyler

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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've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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