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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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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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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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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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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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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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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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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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But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
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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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