Anne Tyler Quotes

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• I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

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  I Can

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• I'm falling into disrepair

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  Fall

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

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  Views, Burden, Accepting

  Anne Tyler (2003). “Saint Maybe”

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• 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.

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  True Life, May, Life Is

  Anne Tyler (2001). “Back when We Were Grownups: A Novel”, Knopf

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• Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.

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  People, Moments, Awareness

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.53, Random House

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• I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

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  Thinking, Shoes, Luck

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• When you have children, you're obligated to live.

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  Children

  Anne Tyler (1992). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”

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  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!

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  Funny, Dog, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• How plotless real life was!

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  Life, Real, Real Life

  Anne Tyler (1992). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”

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• I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.

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  Writing, Simple, Greed

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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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  Life, Relationship, Offering

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.138, Random House

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• It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

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  Love Someone, How Much You Love Someone, Who You Are

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• Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

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  Once Upon A Time, Wrong Person, Persons

  Anne Tyler (2015). “Back When We Were Grownups”, Penguin

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• Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

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  People, Dying, Goes On

  Anne Tyler (1990). “Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels”, Avenel

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• People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

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  Good Luck, People, Luck

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

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  Chance, One Chance, Chances Are

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• If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

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  Writing, Literature, Felt

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Sleep

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• It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.

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  Grief, Knives, Kind

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• Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

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  Death, Body, Odd

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• 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

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  Ordinary, Mystery, Celebrate Life

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• 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.

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  Writing, Looks, Lasts

  Author Q&A by Penguin Random House, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

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• Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.

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  Mean, Understanding, Understanding Each Other

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• 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?

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  Dog, Travel, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

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  Writing, Dinner, Homesick

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