"The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest."
― Anne Tyler
Topic(s):
Marriage
― Anne Tyler
More From Anne Tyler
- "For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood."
- "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 Marriage
- "Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake."― Elbert Hubbard
- "More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse."― Doug Larson
- "If your neighbor has a completely different view on abortion, gay marriage, stem cell research, all of those things, you still are both Americans. Neither one of you is necessarily more patriotic than the other. Neither loves their country any more than the other one does."― Phil McGraw