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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

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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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Emerged
Held
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Women

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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 write because I want to have more than one life.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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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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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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
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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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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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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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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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The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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