Anne Tyler Quotes

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

For me, writing was the only way out.

The trouble with dying...is that you don't get to see how everything turns out. You won't know the ending.

Face it, ' I said. '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, ' I said.

People always call it luck when you’ve acted more sensibly than they have.

Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?

It seems to me that since I've had children I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while but when I did write I had more of a self to speak from.