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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
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Short Story Writer
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Washington
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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 that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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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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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
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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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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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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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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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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
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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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People forget years and remember moments.
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It's gratifying that it does I love to give readings.
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I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.
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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
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Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
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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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Clichés so often befall vain people.
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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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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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