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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
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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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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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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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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He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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