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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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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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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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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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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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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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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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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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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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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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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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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.
Anne Tyler