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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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Must

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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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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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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'm falling into disrepair
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Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
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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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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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I spend about a year between novels
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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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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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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
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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
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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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.
Anne Tyler