Anne Tyler Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Literature, Felt

• I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?

  Anne Tyler

  Mother, Children, Writing

• My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Meals, Literature

• 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

• My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.

  Anne Tyler

  Inspiration, Decision, Engagement

• The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Reflection, Opportunity

• I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Shy, Literature

• 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

  Baby, Thinking, Waiting

• 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

  Real, Character, Literature

• For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Blood, Literature

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

• I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Trying, Literature

• I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Two

• I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

  Anne Tyler

  Class, Literature, Levels

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

• When I read, I'm purely a reader

  Anne Tyler

  Literature, Reader

• My stories are never quite good enough

  Anne Tyler

  Stories, Literature, Never Quit

• I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

  Penguin Random House interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com.

• Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.

  Anne Tyler

  People, Age, Doe

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

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Writing, Literature

• Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.

  Anne Tyler

  Thinking, People, Finals

• My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Numbers, Literature

• 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

• In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

  Anne Tyler

  Real, Party, Literature

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