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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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