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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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 remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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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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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've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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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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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
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How plotless real life was!
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I'm falling into disrepair
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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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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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... everyone must play his role.
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