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I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Actually Backbone Behold Characters Enough Given Hear Just Own Say Stand Supernatural Texture Then Think Voices Want Well I Think

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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Appear Appearance Artificial Background Book Calculated Character Details Early Ever Family History Lifts Long More Much Notes Novel Stage Than Think Will Write I Think

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I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Choose Fell Less More More Or Less Really Write

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I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: About Again Characters End Ever Novels Point Try Where Wonder

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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Book Certainly Children Easier Every Every Step Finding Give Give Me Grown Me Mechanics Never Now Others Psychic Seem Some Space Step Tell Themselves Time Trouble Way Which Will Write Writing I Can Ahead

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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Always Blood Characters Choose Family Formed My Own Own Surrogate Unrelated Various Would

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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.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Book Either Hope Read Shine Story Think Through Transparency Want Write Writer I Write

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At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Daily Four Hours Less Most Sometimes Spend Three

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And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Am America Class Even Fact Factor Interested Much Supposed Though Very I Am

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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

~Anne Tyler

Topics: Always Because Family Get Meals Novel Tell Very Well

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: October 25th, 1941

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