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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
Forget
Book
Writing
Thing
Good
Always
Finish
Soon
Literature

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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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How plotless real life was!
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