Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler
Anne Tyleris a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 20 novels, the best known of which are Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and Breathing Lessons. All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 October 1941
CountryUnited States of America
For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a though about publication -- and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.
Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got.
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
My stories are never quite good enough