Quotes by Anne Tyler

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about...

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I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking...

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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one...

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I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up...

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I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers...

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I spend about a year between novels.

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I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just...

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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition...

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I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living...

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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always...

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I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say;...

#Anne Tyler