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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Memorial
Service
Meant
Comfort
Living

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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'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.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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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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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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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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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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