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When I read, I'm purely a reader

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Reader
Literature
Read
Purely

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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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... everyone must play his role.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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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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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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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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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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