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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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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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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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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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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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But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
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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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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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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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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
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