Ann Beattie

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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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. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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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. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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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. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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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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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. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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