...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip. Anne Tyler More Quotes by Anne Tyler More Quotes From Anne Tyler (About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. Anne Tyler parenting broken drama Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened. Anne Tyler sooner-or-later pain People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers. Anne Tyler mother children people I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now. Anne Tyler writing doors two My cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even. Anne Tyler new-beginnings cousin mistake She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages. Anne Tyler differences sex way When I read, I'm purely a reader Anne Tyler reader literature One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation') Anne Tyler navigation people world She was good at talking with young people. She seemed to view them as interesting foreigners. Anne Tyler views talking people It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change. Anne Tyler knives grief kind I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it. Anne Tyler writing It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. Anne Tyler groups writing character No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. Anne Tyler couple nurse want People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. Anne Tyler loss people Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying. Anne Tyler dying goes-on people There is no true life. Your true life is the one you end up with, whatever it may be. You just do the best you can with what you've got. Anne Tyler true-life life-is may I'm falling into disrepair Anne Tyler fall And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be. Anne Tyler class america facts 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 real literature character I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing Anne Tyler literature writing book
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