Thinking Quotes by Anne Tyler

Anne Tyler

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.

Advice

People

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Anne Tyler

But what I hope for from a book – either one that I write or one that I read – is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don’t want to think of the writer.

Book

Thinking

Writing

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Anne Tyler

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 Lord knows you will never have to do in normal life. But how about parenthood? Or marriage, either, come to think of it. Before you can drive a car you need a state-approved course of instruction, but driving a car is nothing, nothing, compared to living day in and day out with a husband and raising up a new human being.

Husband

Mean

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Anne Tyler

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Literature

Thinking

Writing

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Anne Tyler

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.

Baby

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Waiting

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Anne Tyler

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

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Real

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Anne Tyler

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.

Finals

People

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Anne Tyler

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 the place, and our mother was a witch.

Mother

Thinking

Torn Apart

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