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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Altogether
Life
Parties
Avoid
Paper
Literature
Party
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Mingle
Real

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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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I write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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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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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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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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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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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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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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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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