Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Writing
Never
Like
Waited
Till
Literature
Write
Felt
More quotes by Anne Tyler
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
Anne Tyler
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
Anne Tyler
Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
Anne Tyler
Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.
Anne Tyler
And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren't for love.
Anne Tyler
Just because we're related doesn't mean we are any good at understanding each other.
Anne Tyler
I spend about a year between novels
Anne Tyler
It's true that writing is 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
I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
Anne Tyler
It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
Anne Tyler
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
My stories are never quite good enough
Anne Tyler
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
Anne Tyler
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
Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
Anne Tyler
And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.
Anne Tyler
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
Anne Tyler
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
Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
Anne Tyler
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