Top 127 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Tyler - Page 3

(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.

Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.