Books Quote by Anne Tyler Download Open image “When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.” — Anne Tyler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
When you are working on something, you have to believe that people will still be reading when you're done! — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
I'm just doing what I've done my whole life, which is talking to people about books and making them read. It's what I do… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
I don't look at other people's work because I don't want to be distracted by their ideas. — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
I give my work to my wife first to read. Then, I try to find new people who haven't read my work before, to… — Owen King Copy Share Image
I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting. — Clive James Copy Share Image
A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I'm famously secretive about my work. Nobody reads my books till they're finished. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
As a reader, I do not like to have everything handed to me. Because after a while it gets formulaic and I'm thinking, "If… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. -… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
