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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!

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Amazing Back Chicken Come Consider Cow Earth Ever Greatest Grocery Grocery Store Half Haul Here Hunters Mean Most Most Amazing Must Pets Pork Store Think Us

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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?

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Another Asked Came Child Found Just Me Mother She Standing Still Up Waiting Work Writing You

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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?

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Act Always Animals Bed Cat Come Dog Ever Feels Hotel Hotel Room How Kind Lifeless Mean Night Notice Offer Ought Pleased Room Sleep Small Some Thought You Your

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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Dream Going Places Put Staying Travelers Traveling While

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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

Topics: About Amateur Babies Beans Going Him Hospital Just Know Leaving License Me Off Remember Thinking Wait Walk I Remember

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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Else Ever Proceed Read Something Will Working

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When I read, I'm purely a reader.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Purely Read Reader

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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.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Age Always Am Been Central Constitute Does General How Interested Mine Naturally Obsession Old Old Age Own People Plot Time I Am

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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

Topics: Every Morning Pen Pick Room Rule Try Up Walk Writing

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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Dinner Hardest Homesick Novel Restaurant Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 25th, 1941

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