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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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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 like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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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. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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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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I spend about a year between novels
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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