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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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How plotless real life was!
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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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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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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'm falling into disrepair
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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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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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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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 write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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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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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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