Quotes by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler

(About parenting:) … all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

Broken

Drama

Parenting

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren’t for love.

Clean

Simple

Simple Life

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there’s such a thing as dying.

Dying

Goes On

People

But I don’t think people take bad advice. They’ve got intuition too, you know. In fact I’d be surprised if they take any advice at all.

Advice

People

Thinking

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.

Book

Thinking

Writing

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!

Dog

Funny

Mean

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.

Men

Vegetables

Weed

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.

Book

Sleep

Writing

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

Blood

Character

Literature

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he’d have trouble saying no.

Crazy

Doors

People

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Accepting

Acid

Advice

Armchairs

Arms

Baby

Blood

Body

Book

Broken

Burden

Celebrate Life

Chance

Chances Are

Character

Children

Clean

Couple

Crazy

Death

Decision

Differences

Dinner

Dog

Doors

Drama

Dream

Dying

Ends

Engagement

Family

Feelings

Felt

Filled

Finals

Funny

Goes On

Greed

Hands

Homesick

House

How Much You Love Someone

Husband

I Can

Ifs

Inspiration

Jesus

Jobs

Knowledge

Life

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Quotes by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler

(About parenting:) … all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

And she thought what a clean, simple life she would have led if it weren’t for love.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there’s such a thing as dying.

But I don’t think people take bad advice. They’ve got intuition too, you know. In fact I’d be surprised if they take any advice at all.

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.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!

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.

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.

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

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he’d have trouble saying no.

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