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Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
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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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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
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I've spent my life supporting myself.
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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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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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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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You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.
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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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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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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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Clichés so often befall vain people.
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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.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
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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.
Ann Beattie
I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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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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