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.

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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.

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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.

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But what I hope for in 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.

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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

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Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.
'What, cremation?' she asked.
'Death.

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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

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Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

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It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".

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