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Anne Tyler quotes

American Novelist October 25, 1941

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Anne Tyler quote: "A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in..."
A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids. Anne Tyler
But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer. Anne Tyler
At this moment (letting a breeze ripple through her fingers like warm water), Maggie felt that the entire business of time's passing was more than she could bear. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not..."
I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told..."
Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death. Anne Tyler
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. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk..."
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. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that..."
...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip. Anne Tyler
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. Anne Tyler
I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. Anne Tyler
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. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view..."
She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. Anne Tyler
No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler quote: "Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had..."
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Anne Tyler
She passed her New York Reviews on to Troy without giving them a glance; she told him she thought there was something perverted about book reviews that were longer than the books they were reviewing. Anne Tyler

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