Anne Tyler

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

— Anne Tyler

#death

He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#feelings #hurt #love #love

Not invade her privacy! Just sit back and give up on her, as if she were a missing pet or mitten, or dropped penny. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#love

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#regret #risk-taking #change

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#best #i #i believe #myself #novels

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! ↗

— Anne Tyler

#back #chicken #come #consider #cow

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. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#forward #good #hard #i #i think

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

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. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#begin #breaking #chapters #characters #delving

I spend about a year between novels. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#between #i #novels #spend #year