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" The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning. "
Anne Tyler
Morning
Writing
Walk
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" 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. "
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Young
Earth
" I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward. "
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" 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. "
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" I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' We're just amateurs. "
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Know
Thinking
Wait
" My stories are never quite good enough. "
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Quite
Never
Stories
" While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. "
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Going
Traveling
Staying
" If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all. "
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Felt
Writing
Write
" When I read, I'm purely a reader. "
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Read
Purely
Reader
" It's true that it's 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. "
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True
Know
Group
" The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest. "
Anne Tyler
Marriage
Character
Unhappy
" My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages. "
Anne Tyler
Day
Number
Same
" Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age. "
Anne Tyler
Time
People
Own
" I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless? "
Anne Tyler
Small
Sleep
Night
" I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level. "
Anne Tyler
Level
Small
Always
" 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
Thought
Will
Work
" When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it. "
Anne Tyler
Working
Will
Something
" It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away. "
Anne Tyler
Away
Mystery
Good
" 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
People
Will
Think
" My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations. "
Anne Tyler
Start
New
Never
" Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! "
Anne Tyler
Pet
Chicken
Cow
" The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. "
Anne Tyler
Write
Restaurant
Hardest
" I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin. "
Anne Tyler
Write
Page
Events
" In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them. "
Anne Tyler
I Can
Best
Them