299 Quotes by Anne Tyler
"Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts."
"People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have."
"I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?"
"Point of view is not something I consciously decide. Almost always, when I come up with a plot I find that the point of view has automatically arrived with it, part and parcel of the story."
"For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
"...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip."
"In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them"
"Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room."