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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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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
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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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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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Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
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Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
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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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Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
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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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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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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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