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Anne Tyler Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: October 25, 1941

Topics

Writing Personal Shy Talk Out Found

My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

Good Father Mother Women Beautiful

Often, entertainment goes deeper, in terms of ideas, than the newspapers.

Ideas Entertainment Than Goes Deeper

I don't remember my life before I had children.

Life Children My Life Remember Had

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.

Success Live You Answer Define Got

In 1941, the BBC was setting up local, low-powered transmitters that were switched off if there was an air raid so they couldn't be used by German planes to navigate. As a 'youth in training,' my job was to switch the transmitter on in the mornings and off at night, and to check that it, and the feeder land lines, were working.

Job Training Youth Night Land Air

I can't comment on every article in the newspapers.

Comment Every Newspapers Article

The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy.

Doing Economy Fine Just Wealthy

I've been rapping since I was 13.

Been Since Rapping

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

Water Brain You Find Human Brain

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

Attitude Truth Politics Truth Is Try

I think living my happy, open life and showing young gay kids you can be successful, you can have love in your life, you can be a contributing member of society and you can be respected - I think that's it.

Life Love Happy Society Think You

Maybe I'll work for a label someday, write some fiction, nonfiction. Someday I'd like to go back to school and get my teaching degree. I want to be a grandpa. I want to have more kids.

Work School Back Go Want Write

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