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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Person
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Pictures
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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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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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How plotless real life was!
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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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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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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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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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I spend about a year between novels
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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
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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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