3 December 2020 Anne Tyler The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler 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.
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler My family can always tell when I’m well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
3 December 2020 Anne Tyler The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.
