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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
Anne Tyler
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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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More quotes by Anne Tyler
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.
Anne Tyler
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
Anne Tyler
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Anne Tyler
I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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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.
Anne Tyler
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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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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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Anne Tyler
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
Anne Tyler
I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
Anne Tyler
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.
Anne Tyler