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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
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Literature
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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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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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How plotless real life was!
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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 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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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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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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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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