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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
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Jesus
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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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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
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How plotless real life was!
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... everyone must play his role.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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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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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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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