But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

- Anne Tyler

I'm falling into disrepair

- Anne Tyler

Isn't a memorial service meant to comfort the living?

- Anne Tyler

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

- Anne Tyler

...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.

- Anne Tyler

If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.

- Anne Tyler

...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

- Anne Tyler

View your burden as a gift. It's the theme that has been given you to work with. Accept that and lean into it.

- Anne Tyler

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

- Anne Tyler