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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
Anne Tyler
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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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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 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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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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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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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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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Anne Tyler
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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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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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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