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

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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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Writing
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Fell

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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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 don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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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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