Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler
Anne Tyleris a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons. All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.
... everyone must play his role.
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 think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping ...
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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.
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?
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.
...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
I write because I want to have more than one life.
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.