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Anne Tyler

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

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Donna Grant

"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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Donna Grant

"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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Donna Grant

"Father, I know you will hear me, I will speak."

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Donna Grant

"Children are angels."

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Donna Grant

"We come into the world through a man and a woman. But life blessings us with many fathers and mothers."

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Donna Grant

"Wrapped in a mother's love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child."

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Donna Grant

"A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams."

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Donna Grant

"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

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Donna Grant

"A philanderer cannot be a parent - a parent cannot be a philanderer."

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Donna Grant

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."

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Anne Tyler
"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."

Age

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Anne Tyler
"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter."

Life

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Anne Tyler
"I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life."

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

Family

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

Class

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

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Anne Tyler
"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."

Family

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Anne Tyler
"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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Anne Tyler
"If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all."

Writing

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