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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
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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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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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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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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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
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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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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 suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
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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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
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...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.
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