American - Novelist | October 25, 1941 -
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
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My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
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My stories are never quite good enough.
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My decision to start a new one is just that, a decision, since I never get inspirations.
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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.
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In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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