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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
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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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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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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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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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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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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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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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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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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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