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Best Quotes by Anne Tyler (Top 10)
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I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
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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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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!
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It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
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People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
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Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
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I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
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When you have children, you're obligated to live.
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I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
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More Anne Tyler Quotes
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But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. 'The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But instead it's like missing water. Every day, you notice the person's absence more.
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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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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.
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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.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
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