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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.
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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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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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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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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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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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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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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.
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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