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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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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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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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.
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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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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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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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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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... everyone must play his role.
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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