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My stories are never quite good enough
Anne Tyler
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Anne Tyler
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 25
Librarian
Novelist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Quite
Literature
Stories
Enough
Good
Never
More quotes by Anne Tyler
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
Anne Tyler
There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.
Anne Tyler
Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story.
Anne Tyler
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
Anne Tyler
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.
Anne Tyler
I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.
Anne Tyler
...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.
Anne Tyler
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
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Anne Tyler
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler
Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
Anne Tyler
Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.
Anne Tyler
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
Anne Tyler
How plotless real life was!
Anne Tyler
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
Anne Tyler
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
Anne Tyler
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Anne Tyler
Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
Anne Tyler