Quotes by Anne Tyler

Explore a curated collection of 18 quotes by Anne Tyler. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. — Anne Tyler
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get — Anne Tyler
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 mornin — Anne Tyler
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 wh — Anne Tyler
Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sin — Anne Tyler
People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next — Anne Tyler
He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of — Anne Tyler
Alex Barrow’s broad face, with the roughened skin that gave him an air of experience. His powerful, packed, wrestler’s b — Anne Tyler
The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them — Anne Tyler
Don't count on me to take you in because I'm angry. I'm angry at you for leading us on such a song and dance all these y — Anne Tyler
What if heaven is just a vast consciousness that the dead return to? And their assignment is to report on the experience — Anne Tyler
He was perfect, was how she'd put it to herself. And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's s — Anne Tyler
People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have. — Anne Tyler
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 wh — Anne Tyler
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought — Anne Tyler
Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all — Anne Tyler
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood — Anne Tyler
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - ch — Anne Tyler