(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. Anne Tyler More Quotes by Anne Tyler More Quotes From Anne Tyler I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. Anne Tyler i-can 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 dog funny mean It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. Anne Tyler how-much-you-love-someone love-someone who-you-are For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark. Anne Tyler sleep writing book It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. Anne Tyler offering relationship life Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person. Anne Tyler wrong-person persons once-upon-a-time I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? Anne Tyler dog mean travel In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them Anne Tyler party real literature Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him. Anne Tyler odd body death Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room. Anne Tyler acid reading writing If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. Anne Tyler felt literature writing 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 family writing children While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. Anne Tyler armchairs dream travel 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 writing morning trying I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get Anne Tyler chances-are one-chance chance 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 mother writing children But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. Anne Tyler doing-nothing ends ifs I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. Anne Tyler voice character thinking People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. Anne Tyler good-luck luck people Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other. Anne Tyler understanding-each-other understanding mean
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