Anne Tyler

“It is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest utterances of another.”

“It is a given that we will all want to be someone else. But to be that someone else, you'll have to be you first.”

“It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you're not alone, in a way.”

“People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.”

“I write because I want to live other lives.”

“I'm a great believer in the beauty of the everyday.”

“The trouble with dying is that you don't get to see how it all turns out.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“But what was the point of living so long if you never changed?”

“Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.”

“It seems to me that the way to get a firm grip on reality is to lax your grip.”

“It's a terrible thing to be a passive bystander to your own life.”

“The hardest thing about writing is getting started.”

“The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever.”

“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!”