Anne Tyler
Novelist
1941-10-25
Anne Tyler is an American novelist known for literary fiction centered on family life, including The Accidental Tourist and Breathing Lessons. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Breathing Lessons in 1989.
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Quotes by Anne Tyler
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She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.
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She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.
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My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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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.
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Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death.
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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.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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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She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.
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Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death.
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It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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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.
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My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.
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She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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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.
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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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