Famous quote by Anne Tyler

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"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage"

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This quote is written / told by Anne Tyler somewhere between October 25, 1941 and today. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA. The author also have 37 other quotes.

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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

John Donne, Poet

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"