Anne Tyler Quote
I’ll just tell you what I’ve learned that has helped me, he said. Shall I? Yes, tell me, she said, growing still. I broke my days into separate moments, he said. See, it’s true I didn’t have any more to look forward to. But on the other hand, there were these individual moments that I could still appreciate. Like drinking that first cup of coffee in the morning. Working on something fine in my workshop. Watching a baseball game on TV. She thought that over. But… she said. He waited. But…is that enough? she asked him. Well, yes, it turns out that it is, he said.
Anne Tyler
I’ll just tell you what I’ve learned that has helped me, he said. Shall I? Yes, tell me, she said, growing still. I broke my days into separate moments, he said. See, it’s true I didn’t have any more to look forward to. But on the other hand, there were these individual moments that I could still appreciate. Like drinking that first cup of coffee in the morning. Working on something fine in my workshop. Watching a baseball game on TV. She thought that over. But… she said. He waited. But…is that enough? she asked him. Well, yes, it turns out that it is, he said.
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About Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published twenty-five novels, including Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982), The Accidental Tourist (1985), and Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Breathing Lessons won the prize in 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. Tyler's twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2015, and Redhead By the Side of the Road was longlisted for the same award in 2020.
She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail", her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language."
Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others.
She is recognized for her fully developed characters, her "brilliantly imagined and absolutely accurate detail", her "rigorous and artful style", and her "astute and open language."
Tyler has been compared to John Updike, Jane Austen, and Eudora Welty, among others.