Anne Tyler Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• 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

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

  Anne Tyler

  Book, Childhood, Waiting

• We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.

  Anne Tyler

  House, Waiting, Teens

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.58, Random House

• 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

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