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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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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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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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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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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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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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