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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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... everyone must play his role.
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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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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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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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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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