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Thinking Quotes by Anne Tyler
- I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I…
- But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the…
- I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that…
- 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…
- 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!…
- 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…
- I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning,…
- I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
- Not until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
- Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken,…
- 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.
- You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over…
- I mean you're given all these lessons for the unimportant things--piano-playing, typing. You're given years and years of lessons in how to balance equations, which…
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