Anne Tyler Quotes
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler
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.
Rachel Johnson
-
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida
-
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.
Karen Mills
-
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant
-
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
S. E. Hinton
-
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.
Ian Anderson
-
I've always been happy with my body.
Venus Williams
-
He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson
-
Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.
Natalie Maines
-
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career - neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
Chris Pavone
-
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Ray Bradbury
-
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
Anne Tyler
