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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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 never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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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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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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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
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... everyone must play his role.
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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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