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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
Anne Tyler
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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
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Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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When I read, I'm purely a reader
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
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It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
Anne Tyler
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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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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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.
Anne Tyler
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Anne Tyler
My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
Anne Tyler
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
Anne Tyler
Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
Anne Tyler
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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