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Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
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Minneapolis
Minnesota
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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
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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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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
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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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(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
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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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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows
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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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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
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Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
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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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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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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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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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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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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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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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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He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
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I'm falling into disrepair
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