People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. -Anne Tyler

 

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


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It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

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My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

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I remember leaving the hospital - thinking, 'Wait, are they going to let me just walk off with him? I don't know beans about babies! I don't have a license to do this.' [We're] just amateurs. -Anne Tyler
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II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a though about publication -- and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.

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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!

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While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. -Anne Tyler
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.

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