“I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows”
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Famous Anne Tyler Quotes
Source: Saint Maybe
“My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.”
Source: The Beginner's Goodbye
Source: Celestial Navigation
“Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.”
Source: The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer
“But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.”
“...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.”
Source: Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels
Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels
“Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.”
Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels
“Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.”
Source: Saint Maybe
Source: Saint Maybe
Source: If Morning Ever Comes
“Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?”
Source: The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer
“Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.”
Source: The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer
Source: Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
“Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.”
Source: The Beach Book Bundle: 3 Novels for Summer Reading: Breathing Lessons, The Alphabet Sisters, Firefly Summer
“(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.”
“... everyone must play his role.”
Source: Anne Tyler: Four Complete Novels
Source: If Morning Ever Comes
“When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.”
“The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.”