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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.

Anne Tyler

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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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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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.
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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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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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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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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.
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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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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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