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Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

Anne Tyler

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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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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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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.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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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've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns
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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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
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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 do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
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I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
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