I spend about a year between novels.
More Quotes from Anne Tyler:
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.Anne Tyler
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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 about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
Anne Tyler
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
Anne Tyler
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
For me, writing something down was the only road out.
Anne Tyler
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