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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
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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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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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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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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I'm falling into disrepair
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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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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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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How plotless real life was!
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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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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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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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Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which calls for details any good lie does.
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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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I spend about a year between novels
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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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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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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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