Words of Note

July 6, 2000

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

Anne Tyler, American novelist

Quoted in 'The Writer on Her Work,' edited by Janet Sternburg (1980).

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