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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Trying
Billboard
Billboards
Regret
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Jesus

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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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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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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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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'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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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My stories are never quite good enough
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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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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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... everyone must play his role.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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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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