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Anne Tyler quotes: wine. Three cans of beer wine. Three cans of beer
Anne Tyler quotes: Big, and when you all come to visit it's too small." "We'll be fine, Big, and when you all come to visit it's too small." "We'll be fine,
Anne Tyler quotes: Those who forget the past tend to regret the future Those who forget the past tend to regret the future
Anne Tyler quotes: Agatha sighed. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks," she said flatly, "so panteth my soul after Thee, O God. Agatha sighed. "As the hart panteth after the water brooks," she said flatly, "so panteth my soul after Thee, O God.
Anne Tyler quotes: The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them
Anne Tyler quotes: My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages. My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Anne Tyler quotes: Everyone must play his role. Everyone must play his role.
Anne Tyler quotes: For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler quotes: It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end. It makes you wonder why we bother accumulating, accumulating, when we know from earliest childhood how it's all going to end.
Anne Tyler quotes: If you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad. If you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Anne Tyler quotes: apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back
Anne Tyler quotes: Past is past ... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely. Past is past ... no it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.
Anne Tyler quotes: Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations. Much of Macon's youth was ruled by connotations.
Anne Tyler quotes: In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them. In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
Anne Tyler quotes: (About parenting ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. (About parenting ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
Anne Tyler quotes: Not until she'd left the room did Kate realize that Bunny hadn't ended a single one of her sentences with a question mark. Not until she'd left the room did Kate realize that Bunny hadn't ended a single one of her sentences with a question mark.
Anne Tyler quotes: I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again. I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
Anne Tyler quotes: It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
Anne Tyler quotes: I'm falling into disrepair I'm falling into disrepair
Anne Tyler quotes: While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
Anne Tyler quotes: I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level. I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
Anne Tyler quotes: Peculiar, isn't it?" he said. "First you're scolding your children and then all at once they're so smart they're scolding you. Peculiar, isn't it?" he said. "First you're scolding your children and then all at once they're so smart they're scolding you.
Anne Tyler quotes: Who would have thought," the witch had asked, "that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? Who would have thought," the witch had asked, "that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?
Anne Tyler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
Anne Tyler quotes: At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less. At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less.
Anne Tyler quotes: I spend about a year between novels. I spend about a year between novels.
Anne Tyler quotes: She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby. She collected and polished resentments as if it were some kind of hobby.
Anne Tyler quotes: If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler quotes: It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded. It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.
Anne Tyler quotes: I really believe that most people who seem scary are just sad. I really believe that most people who seem scary are just sad.
Anne Tyler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I don't type [when I write] because ... I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand. I don't type [when I write] because ... I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
Anne Tyler quotes: My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations. My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
Anne Tyler quotes: It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
Anne Tyler quotes: Not only had she paid him attention, but she had secretly taken more pleasure in him than in any of the others. Not only had she paid him attention, but she had secretly taken more pleasure in him than in any of the others.
Anne Tyler quotes: It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort. It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort.
Anne Tyler quotes: I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
Anne Tyler quotes: Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living? Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
Anne Tyler quotes: He had begun to have spells lately of worrying that he had died, and that everyone knew it but him. He had begun to have spells lately of worrying that he had died, and that everyone knew it but him.
Anne Tyler quotes: Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged. Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
Anne Tyler quotes: He thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip. He thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
Anne Tyler quotes: it was all so new to her, he guessed. it was all so new to her, he guessed.
Anne Tyler quotes: But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst. But it was easier, somehow, to reflect on them all from a distance than to be struggling for room in their midst.
Anne Tyler quotes: Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family's edges Sometimes she felt like a tiny gnat, whirring around her family's edges
Anne Tyler quotes: Plenty of other books say how to see as much of the city as possible," his boss had told him. "You should say how to see as little.") Plenty of other books say how to see as much of the city as possible," his boss had told him. "You should say how to see as little.")
Anne Tyler quotes: You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair. You're old for so much longer than you're young, she thinks. Really it hardly seems fair.
Anne Tyler quotes: I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler quotes: I write because I want to have more than one life. I write because I want to have more than one life.
Anne Tyler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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.
Anne Tyler quotes: For me, writing something down was the only road out. For me, writing something down was the only road out.
Anne Tyler quotes: Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens. Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.
Anne Tyler quotes: The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending. The trouble with dying," she'd told Jeannie once, "is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.
Anne Tyler quotes: My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy. My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Anne Tyler quotes: A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids. A Japanese man festooned with cameras, a nun, a young girl in braids.
Anne Tyler quotes: You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?' You're only ever as happy as your least happy child?'
Anne Tyler quotes: And all at once I had no one to trade looks with. And all at once I had no one to trade looks with.
Anne Tyler quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read. Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
Anne Tyler quotes: 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 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 quotes: View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it. View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.
Anne Tyler quotes: I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
Anne Tyler quotes: It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it". It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".
Anne Tyler quotes: Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed. Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.
Anne Tyler quotes: Skinny as a fence post. Skinny as a fence post.
Anne Tyler quotes: I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows. I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
Anne Tyler quotes: I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
Anne Tyler quotes: Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you! Oh, the terrible, crushing, breath-stealing burden of people who think they own you!
Anne Tyler quotes: If we had been any different, would they have loved us? If we had been any different, would they have loved us?
Anne Tyler quotes: Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives. Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
Anne Tyler quotes: It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
Anne Tyler quotes: But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all. But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.
Anne Tyler quotes: For me, writing was the only way out. For me, writing was the only way out.
Anne Tyler quotes: All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by. All those years when I was a child, longing for it to be 'my turn,' it hadn't ever occurred to me that my turn would be over, by and by.
Anne Tyler quotes: He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no. He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.
Anne Tyler quotes: I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something. I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
Anne Tyler quotes: Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying. Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.
Anne Tyler quotes: All I saw was one black cat, an insultingly paranoid type who shrank off as I drew near. All I saw was one black cat, an insultingly paranoid type who shrank off as I drew near.
Anne Tyler quotes: Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could. Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
Anne Tyler quotes: Sometimes, Kate was downright astonished by how much the women in the faculty lounge sounded like the little girls nattering away in Room 4. It Sometimes, Kate was downright astonished by how much the women in the faculty lounge sounded like the little girls nattering away in Room 4. It
Anne Tyler quotes: Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs. Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.
Anne Tyler quotes: People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
Anne Tyler quotes: When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it. When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Anne Tyler quotes: he wrote a series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. Ridiculous, when you thought about it: Macon hated travel. he wrote a series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. Ridiculous, when you thought about it: Macon hated travel.
Anne Tyler quotes: And sometimes," he said, "you get to what you thought was the end and you find it's a whole new beginning. And sometimes," he said, "you get to what you thought was the end and you find it's a whole new beginning.
Anne Tyler quotes: Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives? Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
Anne Tyler quotes: Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death. Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.
'What, cremation?' she asked.
'Death.
Anne Tyler quotes: I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
Anne Tyler quotes: Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny. Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny.
Anne Tyler quotes: Was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure Was just, seems like, born knowing how. He can figure
Anne Tyler quotes: She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners.
Anne Tyler quotes: I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing. I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
Anne Tyler quotes: In a way," I told Peggy, "it's like the grief has been covered over with some In a way," I told Peggy, "it's like the grief has been covered over with some
Anne Tyler quotes: My stories are never quite good enough. My stories are never quite good enough.
Anne Tyler quotes: I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe. I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
Anne Tyler quotes: I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward. I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
Anne Tyler quotes: Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him. Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
Anne Tyler quotes: The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler quotes: But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

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