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My stories are never quite good enough

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Quite
Literature
Stories
Enough
Good
Never

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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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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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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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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 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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details any good lie does.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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... everyone must play his role.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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