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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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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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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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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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It's gratifying that it does I love to give readings.
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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I've spent my life supporting myself.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.
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