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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Grew
Amateur
Differences
Richest
Literature
Surely
Show
Opportunities
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Unhappy
Shows
Reflection
Character
Atheism
Must
Marriage

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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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'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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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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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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