Character Quote by Anne Tyler

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

— Anne Tyler

“Every place I go I miss another place.”

— Anne Tyler

I'm falling into disrepair

— Anne Tyler

None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -…

— Anne Tyler

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

— Anne Tyler

Mostly it's lies, writing novels. You set out to tell an untrue story and you try to make it believable, even to yourself. Which…

— Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

— Anne Tyler

“You wake in the morning, you’re feeling fine, but all at once you think, “Something’s not right. Something’s off somewhere; what is it?” And…

— Anne Tyler

“...that was Julian for you: reckless. A dashing sailor, a speedy driver, a frequenter of single bars, he was the kind of man who…

— Anne Tyler

“Disaster followed disaster... the hero stuck in there, though. Macon had long ago noticed that all adventure movies had the same moral: Perseverance pays.…

— Anne Tyler

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

— Anne Tyler

“Justine hated pantsuits. Whenever she saw one, she had an urge to tell the owner some scandalous fortune, loudly enough to be heard everywhere:…

— Anne Tyler