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Anne Tyler Quotes

American - Novelist | October 25, 1941 -

I spend about a year between novels.

Year Between About Novels Spend

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows.

Myself Best Believe I Believe Save

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

Writing Think Process Never About

I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns.

Believe Story Thought Want Living

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

Good Writing Book Forget Finish

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.

Think Stand Enough Say Want Own

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

Family Character History Book Think

I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.

Choose More Write Less Really Fell

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

End Wonder Try Point Where Again

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

Children Time Step Space Me Writing

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

Family Choose Blood My Own Always

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Hope Shine Book Story Think Want

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