Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.
Anne TylerPeople always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read their mothers.
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 TylerI have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
Anne Tyler