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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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One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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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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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There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at
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... everyone must play his role.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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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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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 hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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