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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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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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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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... everyone must play his role.
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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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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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