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Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.
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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
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It's gratifying that it does I love to give readings.
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Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock, now I’m on this rock.
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When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.
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When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
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Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
Ann Beattie
Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.
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It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.
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You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
Ann Beattie
I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
Ann Beattie
I've spent my life supporting myself.
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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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