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

—Ann Beattie

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What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

—Ann Beattie

Image, I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed

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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

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I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

—Ann Beattie

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Image, If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I

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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

Image, You put a character out there and you’re in their power. You’re

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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.

—Ann Beattie

Image, It’s not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other

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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.

—Ann Beattie

Image, Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is

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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.

—Ann Beattie

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I've spent my life supporting myself.

—Ann Beattie

Image, It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason

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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.

—Ann Beattie

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

—Ann Beattie

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Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

—Ann Beattie

Image, When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to

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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.

—Ann Beattie

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Image, I don’t write about things that I have the answers to or

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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.

—Ann Beattie

Image, Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I’m

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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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Clichés so often befall vain people.

—Ann Beattie

Image, Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations

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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.