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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
Feeling
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Flows
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Directly
Everything
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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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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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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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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