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Ann Beattie Quotes

Ann Beattie quotes

American Writer September 8, 1947

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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. Ann Beattie
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. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings."
It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings. Ann Beattie
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
Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would click on some of the flashlights and consider the... Ann Beattie
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. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of..."
It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "I've spent my life supporting myself."
I've spent my life supporting myself. Ann Beattie
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. Ann Beattie
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. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical..."
It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place..."
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that. Ann Beattie
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
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. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men..."
Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways. Ann Beattie

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