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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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Grudges
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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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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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How plotless real life was!
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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 save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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