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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.

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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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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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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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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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's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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How plotless real life was!
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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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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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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