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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
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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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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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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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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I'm falling into disrepair
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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
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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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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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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 don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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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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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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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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