Quotes by Ann Beattie - Page 1

Clichés so often befall vain people.
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People
Vain
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I've spent my life supporting myself.
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Life Myself My Life
Spent
Supporting
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People forget years and remember moments.
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People
Remember
Years
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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.
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Aim
Grace
Happens
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It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
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Doe
Giving Up
Reading
Gratifying
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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
Ann Beattie / Writer
Mysterious
Mysterious Things
Thinking
Writing
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Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.
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Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.
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Dramatic
Ifs
Seems
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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.
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Assuming
Limits
Writing
Assume
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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.
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Names
People
Correct
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I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
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Bleak
Serious
Thinking
Inordinately
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Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.
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Men
Way
Men Women More
Women Are
Discriminated
Women Men More
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the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.
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Marriage
Children
Real
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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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Disadvantages
Hair
Long
Blond
Disadvantage
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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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Character
Ifs
Trouble
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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.
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Daily Life
Interesting
Thinking
Daily
Relatively
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The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.
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Admiration
Proportion
Style
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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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Book
Stories
Thinking
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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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Falling In Love
Meant To Be
Place And Time
Rooted
Were Meant To Be
Meant
Falling
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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.
Ann Beattie / Writer
Cynical
Depressing
Said
Extremely
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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.
Ann Beattie / Writer
Chance
Book
Tone
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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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Common
Littles
Minimalism
Term
Together
Terribly
Lumped
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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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Rocks
Stories
Writing
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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 / Writer
Clarification
Time Business Long
Mistakes
Eradicate
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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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Men
Be A Man
Character
Interesting
Character Man May
Character Man Woman
Complex
Complex Character
Interesting Character
Narrator
Protagonist
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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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Home
Travel
Adventure
Answers
Vitality
Writing
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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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Helping
Irony
Wonderful
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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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Atmosphere
Character
Imagery
People
Thinking
Always Me People
Me People Way
Visual
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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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Different
Might
Writing
Drawn
Explore
Material
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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the reader, and I do hope they're on target.
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Reader
Target
Articulate
Confusions
Disappointments
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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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Admire
Glowing
Males
Alice
Male
Writers
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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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Aim
Cambridge
Class
Harvard
Photography
Teaching
Classes
Project
Incorporated
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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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People
Right Person
Self
Writing
People Will Person
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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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New York
Cities
Distance
Locks
Safety
Door
Forth
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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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Agents
Hollywood
Improvisation
Love Always
Tea
Thinking
Love Always Way
Conversations
Overheard
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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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Diaries
Order
Problem
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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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Clouds
Long
Moving
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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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Dinner
People
Trying
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Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
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Enthusiastic
First Time
Years Ago
Life Time Work
Life Work Time
Last Few Years
Listened
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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.
Ann Beattie / Writer
Agree
Humorous
Pleasant
Subjects
Thinking
Writing
Me People Serious
Aspects
Necessarily
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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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Boys
Fourteen
Song
Summer
Love Music Culture
Exactly
Exactly What
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