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Anne Tyler quotes about life

American Novelist October 25, 1941

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Why did popular songs always focus on romantic love? Why this preoccupation with first meetings, sad partings, honeyed kisses, heartbreak, when life was also full of children's births and trips to the shore and longtime jokes with friends? Once Maggie had seen on TV where archaeologists had just unearthed a fragment of music from who knows how many centuries B.C., and it was a boys lament for a girl who didn't love him back. Then besides the songs there were the magazine stories and the... Anne Tyler
He began to see the situation from another angle. An assignment had been given him. Someone’s life, a small set of lives had been placed in the palm of his hand. Maybe he would never have any more purpose than this: to accept the assignment gracefully, lovingly, and do the best he could with it. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led..."
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I..."
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them. Anne Tyler
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands. Anne Tyler
There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got. Anne Tyler
I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being. Anne Tyler
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. 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. 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. Anne Tyler
Sifting through these layers of belongings while Ira stood mute behind her, Maggie had a sudden view of her life as circular. It forever repeated itself, and it was entirely lacking in hope. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "I write because I want to have more than one life."
I write because I want to have more than one life. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better,..."
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller. Anne Tyler

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