Quotes by Ann Beattie

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd...

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I've spent my life supporting myself.

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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that...

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

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I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.

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I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere,...

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I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long,...

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I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if...

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I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and...

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I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are...

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

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I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and...

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