{"author":"Anne Tyler","author_id":"Anne+Tyler","total_quotes":39,"quotes":[{"text":"Past is past... No it's not! People are always fond of saying that, but what's past is never past; not entirely.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["international","life","past"],"id":47598,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["thought","beginning","look "],"id":56667,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them- an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["children","grandchildren","grandmother","grandparents"],"id":60676,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don't take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact that he's your brother. That's how it can be borne.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":60963,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"He was perfect, was how she'd put it to herself. And then that clear-eyed, calm-faced boy would shine forth from Red's sags and wrinkles, from his crumpled eyelids and hollowed cheeks and the two deep crevices bracketing his mouth and just his general obtuseness, his stubbornness, his infuriating belief that simple cold logic could solve all life's problems, and she would feel unspeakably lucky to have ended up with him.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["love","romantic"],"id":61448,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"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.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["time","i am","old age "],"id":66115,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"Ghosts... They are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["ghosts","inspirational-attitude","life"],"id":75710,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"Alex Barrow’s broad face, with the roughened skin that gave him an air of experience. His powerful, packed, wrestler’s body. The thick black fur at the base of his throat. It was wrong to call him handsome, although all the women did. Really he was almost ugly, but in a stirring, thrilling way that made her shift in her seat as she thought about him.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["crush","description","hot","male-beauty","man"],"id":103890,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. From Back When We Were Grownups.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["family","identity","step-children"],"id":114270,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"},{"text":"Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death.","author":"Anne Tyler","tags":["death"],"id":116717,"author_id":"Anne+Tyler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}