I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
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For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.Anne Tyler
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
Anne Tyler
I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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 while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
Anne Tyler
The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
Anne Tyler
When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Anne Tyler
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