"I'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."

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Anne Tyler

#Writing Quotes #Shy Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life.”
“Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent.”
“I suppose in the end what shift occurred - is that at Yale I began to become more materially and conceptually aware of the mechanisms that gave rise to those types of patterns and paintings. And so the copying that happened in the childhood was a much more conscious type of copying in later years.”
“I didn't want to change the name on the towels.”
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
“It's weird how you can learn something incorrectly.”

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“Fortunately for me, its my most favorite drill, and that is finishing. However, from a young age, soccer players in this country are not taught how to properly finish, and I think you see that through the professional ranks, that we dont have that killer instinct of the forwards from other countries.”
“Friends are the family that you choose.”

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