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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.
Ann Beattie
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Ann Beattie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 8
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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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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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
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There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
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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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Clichés so often befall vain people.
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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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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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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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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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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
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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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