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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Literature
Forget
Book
Writing
Thing
Good
Always
Finish
Soon

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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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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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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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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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I spend about a year between novels
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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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