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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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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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I spend about a year between novels
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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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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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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 never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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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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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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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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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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