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Anne Tyler Quotes

«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.»
Author: Anne Tyler (Novelist)
«She thinks the people she loves are better than they really are, and so then she starts changing things around to suit her view of them»
Author: Anne Tyler (Novelist) | Keywords: suit
«While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.»
«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.»
«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!»
«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?»
«People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.»
Author: Anne Tyler (Novelist)
«I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.»
Author: Anne Tyler (Novelist)
«II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a though about publication -- and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.»
Author: Anne Tyler (Novelist)
«My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.»
Author: Anne Tyler (Novelist)