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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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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 don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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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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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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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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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'm falling into disrepair
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