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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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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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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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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'm falling into disrepair
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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