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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.

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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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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'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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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
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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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...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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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 forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing
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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 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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View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
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