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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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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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...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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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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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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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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 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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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