Anne Tyler Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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, Book, Writing

• But what I hope for from 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.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Book, Writing, Sleep

• I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Character, Writing

• I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Writing, Literature

• I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

  Anne Tyler

  Real, Book, Thinking

• I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Childhood, Waiting

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