Writer Quotes by 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…

— Ann Beattie

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

— Ann Beattie

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

— Ann Beattie

“This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with…

— Ann Beattie

“This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with…

— Ann Beattie

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be…

— Ann Beattie

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

— 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…

— Ann Beattie

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't…

— Ann Beattie

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

— Ann Beattie

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own.

— Ann Beattie

I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's…

— Ann Beattie

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…

— Ann Beattie

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

— Ann Beattie

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…

— Ann Beattie