Anne Tyler Quotations | Page 2

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker.

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

When I read, I'm purely a reader

My stories are never quite good enough

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.

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.