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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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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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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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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'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 expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real 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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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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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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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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