Anne Tyler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
-
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
-
As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
-
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
-
I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
-
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
-
I never feel there's anything I can't do.
-
I never said most of the things I said.
-
I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
-
If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
-
I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
-
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
-
I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
-
To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
-
I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
-
Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
-
I've always been happy with my body.
-
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
-
There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?
-
Will not be punished for your anger, your anger is the punishment.
-
The doctor said that every man will have cancer if he lives to be old enough. I don't know why I got it - I ain't old.
-
I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.
-
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
