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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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 call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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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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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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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 save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I'm falling into disrepair
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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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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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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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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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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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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