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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Literature
Process
Writing
Examining
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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I didn't really choose to write I more or less fell into it.
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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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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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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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Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
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The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs.
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
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It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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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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