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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
- Anne Tyler
#Felt
#Like
#Never
#Till
#Writing
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
#Hospital
#Me
#Remember
#Thinking
#Walk
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
#Celebrate
#Good
#Life
#Me
#Mystery
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
#Age
#Influence
#Life
#My Life
#Work
While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
- Anne Tyler
#Armchair
#Dream
#Going
#Places
#While
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
- Anne Tyler
#Always
#Blood
#Family
#My Own
#Own
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
- Anne Tyler
#Dinner
#Hardest
#Homesick
#Restaurant
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.
- Anne Tyler
#Companionship
#Group
#Know
#Offer
#True
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
- Anne Tyler
#Me
#Mother
#Standing
#Waiting
#Work
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
- Anne Tyler
#Avoid
#Best
#I Can
#Life
#Real
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
#Morning
#Pen
#Room
#Try
#Walk
I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
- Anne Tyler
#Children
#Me
#Space
#Step
#Time
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.
- Anne Tyler
#Character
#Marriage
#Reflection
#Unhappy
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
- Anne Tyler
#Always
#Call
#Luck
#More
#People
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
- Anne Tyler
#Beginning
#Last
#Look
#Will
#Work
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
- Anne Tyler
#Amazing
#Back
#Chicken
#Earth
#Pet
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