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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.

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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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Anytime
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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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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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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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 decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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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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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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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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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