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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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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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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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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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 didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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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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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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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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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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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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... everyone must play his role.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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