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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
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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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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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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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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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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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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