"None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life – motherhood, middle age, etc. – often influence my subject matter."
― Anne Tyler
Topic(s):
Age
― Anne Tyler
More From Anne Tyler
- "Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
- "The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning."
- "I do write long, long character notes – family background, history, details of appearance – much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
More In Age
- "The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don’t work as well, you can’t run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can’t lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn’t feel any different."― Roger Moore
- "Pretend to be dumb, that’s the only way to reach old age."― Friedrich Durrenmatt
- "Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature."― Harold Coffin