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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong they pass each other and keep running.
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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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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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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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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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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No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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