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as quoted in The Writer on Her Work by Janet Sternburg (1980)as quoted in Woman to Woman, by Julia Gilden and Mark Riedman (1994)Macon Leary, in The Accidental Tourist (1985)

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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 life 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.

Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler (b. 1941), U.S. novelist. As quoted in The Writer on Her Work, ch. 2, by Janet Sternburg (1980).

Tyler balanced her career as a prolific, celebrated novelist with duties as wife and mother.

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