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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
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
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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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I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.
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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
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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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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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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
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I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.
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I've spent my life supporting myself.
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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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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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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
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