Anne Tyler Quotes

• I’ve never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

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• It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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• It seems to me that since I’ve had children, I’ve grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

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

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

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• When I read, I’m purely a 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.

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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.

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

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• 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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• She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

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• Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I’m going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

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• 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.

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• My writing day has grown shorter as I’ve aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

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• My stories are never quite good enough.

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

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• My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

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• It’s true that it’s a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

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• It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

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• In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.

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Anne Tyler (47)

Birth:	25th October, 1941
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 19 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons. The former two were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the third won it. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.

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