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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Write
Page
Two
Pages
Character
Characters
Reams
Writing
Begin
Delving
Long
Events
Paragraph
Ready
Describing
Maybe
Chapters
Literature
Breaking

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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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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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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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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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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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How plotless real life was!
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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