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How plotless real life was!

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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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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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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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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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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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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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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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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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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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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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... everyone must play his role.
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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 write because I want more than one life I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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