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I write because I want to have more than one life.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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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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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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I spend about a year between novels
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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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 save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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How plotless real life was!
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I'm falling into disrepair
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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