Quote of the Day (Anne Tyler, on Biting One’s Tongue)

“Someday I'd like to get credit for not saying all the things I could have said.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Anne Tyler, Three Days in June (2025)

Quote of the Day (Anne Tyler, on Luck and Sense)

“People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation (1974)

Quote of the Day (Anne Tyler, on a Middle-Aged Eccentric)

“You could say he was a man who had gone to pieces, or maybe he'd arrived unassembled. Various parts of him seemed poorly joined together. His lean, hairy limbs were connected by exaggerated knobs of bone; his black bearded jaw was as clumsily hinged as a nutcracker. Parts of his life, too, lay separate from other parts. His wife knew almost none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked.”—Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist Anne Tyler, Morgan’s Passing (1980)