The
best part about being a writer is the experience of learning,
gradually, what it is like to be a person completely different from me.
The hard part is that for years on end, I am working in a vacuum. Is
this a story anyone will believe? Anyone will care about? I won’t know
that until I’m finished… I would rather read the writer, not hear him or
her talk. I know that from being a writer myself: what I have to say, I
have already said through my stories… I map my books out in a very
cursory way — say, about a page for each novel — and I always think I
know how they’ll end, but I’m almost always wrong. In the case of The Accidental Tourist,
I actually began a chapter in which Macon stayed with Sarah. But it
didn’t work; something in the characters themselves persuaded me the
ending would have to be different.
A Conversation with Anne Tyler [2002]
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