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

Anne Tyler

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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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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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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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... everyone must play his role.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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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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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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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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How plotless real life was!
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
Anne Tyler