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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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How plotless real life was!
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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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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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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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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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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