Anne Tyler

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1941

American novelist

Studied at Duke University
Studied at Needham B. Broughton High School

writer, novelist, short story writer, children's writer, librarian, literary critic

Quotations with a citation

I’m more in touch with my emotions and the visceral sensory from childhood than any other part of life. I don’t know if it helps with creativity, but I do know that when I talk to other writers they talk about their childhood in great detail.

I am very comfortable writing as a man, and I think that’s because I had really good men in my life. They made me feel comfortable and I thought, ‘OK, they’re not so different from me…’

I know the world does not need another book from me, but I have nothing else to do with myself. I have no hobbies. So then I feel guilty when I say to my agent, ‘I seem to have another book ready if you want to take a look at it…’

…‘I think I was a better writer when I was younger.’…I was more detailed, I took more time. It’s not as if I’m in a rush now, but I trust the reader more. I don’t feel like I have to say that much about the character’s inner feelings. But then as I read The Accidental Tourist I thought, ‘Well, it’s kind of nice to see all of Macon’s inner feelings there.’

In the libraries

Open Library Breathing Lessons · 1988 View library record ↗ Open Library Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant · 1982 View library record ↗ Open Library Ladder of Years · 1993 View library record ↗ Open Library Patchwork Planet · 1998 View library record ↗ Open Library The Accidental Tourist · 1985 View library record ↗ Open Library The Amateur Marriage · 2004 View library record ↗

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