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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
Anne Tyler
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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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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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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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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.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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 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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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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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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