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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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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 just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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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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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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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 write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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