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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
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
Purely
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Literature
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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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I spend about a year between novels
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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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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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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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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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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