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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Sweat
Seeds
Fraction
Patient
Fractions
Week
Weeds
Days
Farming
Knowing
Vegetables
Come
Weed
Men
Farmers

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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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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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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 do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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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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