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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
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Washington
District of Columbia
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Grace
Happen
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
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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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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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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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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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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
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Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.
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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.
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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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Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
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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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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
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If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
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