There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.
Anne TylerI'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
Anne TylerOdd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
Anne TylerNot until the final draft do I force myself to remember that I'm going to have to think about how it will affect other people.
Anne TylerMy cousin Roger once told me, on the eve of his third wedding, that he felt marriage was addictive. Then he corrected himself. I mean early marriage, he said. The very start of a marriage. It's like a whole new beginning. You're entirely brand-new people; you haven't made any mistakes yet. You have a new place to live and new dishes and this new kind of, like, identity, this 'we' that gets invited everywhere together now. Why, sometimes your wife will have a brand-new name, even.
Anne Tyler