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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.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Writing , Morning , Walk , Pen


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.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Myself , People , Think , Remember


I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Long , Two , Ready , Events


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 be the last thing on earth they'd be good at.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  New , Think , Good , Earth


I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Family , Long , History , Character


For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Family , Blood , My Own , Choose


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.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Me , Thinking , Walk , Wait


While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Places , Going , Dream , Traveling


Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Back , Think , Amazing , Pet


When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

Author: Anne Tyler - American Novelist
  Something , Will , Read , Ever , Working


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