In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
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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.Anne Tyler
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.
Anne Tyler
I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.
Anne Tyler
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
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
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