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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.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Articulate Being Certain Disappointments Feel Hope Mean Reader Shake Stories Target Up Written I Feel

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It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Being Daily Daily Life Interesting Life Myself Relatively Think Though I Think

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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.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Come Different Drawn Expect Explore Material Might Obviously Quite Reason Some Way Which Would You Your

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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

Topics: Book Could Doing Favorite Six Stories Think Trouble You

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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

Topics: About Agree Aspects Even Going Humorous Just Keeps Me Most Necessarily People Pleasant Serious Story Subjects Things Think While Would Write Writer Writing I Write

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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

Topics: Anything Been Business Clarification Eradicate Ever Going Long Long Time Longer Mistakes Think Time Way

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

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Correct Even Name Now People

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Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Assume Everything Nobody Writer

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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.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Almost Always Around Atmosphere Characters Gets Going Imagery Me Other People Story Then Think Visual Way I Think

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I've spent my life supporting myself.

~Ann Beattie

Topics: Life My Life Myself Spent Supporting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 8th, 1947

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