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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
Literature
Read
Purely
Reader

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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 didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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... everyone must play his role.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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 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
Anne Tyler