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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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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.
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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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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
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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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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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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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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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I write because I want to have more than one life.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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