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Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
Novelist
Professor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Washington
District of Columbia
People
Forget
Moments
Remember
Years

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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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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
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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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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
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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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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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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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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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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
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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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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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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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Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
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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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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 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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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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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.
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