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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.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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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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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 read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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