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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
Thing
Good
Always
Finish
Soon
Literature
Forget
Book
Writing

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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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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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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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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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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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