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... everyone must play his role.

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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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Everyone
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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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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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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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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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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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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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
Anne Tyler