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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. "
Anne Tyler
Know
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Wait
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" I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level. "
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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 writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages. "
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" Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! "
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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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" In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them. "
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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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Never
" 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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" 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. "
Anne Tyler
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Will
Work
" While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. "
Anne Tyler
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Traveling
Staying
" The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. "
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" The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. "
Anne Tyler
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Writing
Walk
" 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. "
Anne Tyler
Away
Mystery
Good
" My stories are never quite good enough. "
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Quite
Never
Stories
" When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it. "
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Will
Something
" When I read, I'm purely a reader. "
Anne Tyler
Read
Purely
Reader
" She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages. "
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Differences
Way
She
" 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? "
Anne Tyler
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Sleep
Night
" If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. "
Anne Tyler
Felt
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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. "
Anne Tyler
People
Will
Think
" It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. "
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True
Know
Group
" I spend about a year between novels. "
Anne Tyler
Between
Spend
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" The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest. "
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Marriage
Character
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