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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

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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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And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
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I don't want to say I hear voices well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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I spend about a year between novels
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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
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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.
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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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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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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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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 hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
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It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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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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It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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... everyone must play his role.
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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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She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
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The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
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I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
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