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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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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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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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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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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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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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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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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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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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