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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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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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Never
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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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