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Ann Beattie Quotes

Ann Beattie quotes about thinking

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
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
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
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
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
Ann Beattie quote: "If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I..."
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. Ann Beattie
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. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "I think I write about things that are mysterious to me."
I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie quote: "I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm..."
I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. Ann Beattie

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