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When I read, I'm purely a reader

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Purely
Reader
Literature
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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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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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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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'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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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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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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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
Anne Tyler