Anne Tyler Quotes

You know why I like to talk to you, Delia? You never interrupt with your experiences. Not jiggling your foot till you get a chance to jump in with your life history.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.

Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death.

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

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.

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.