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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

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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Literature
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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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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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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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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