Best Ann Beattie Quotes
- I've spent my life supporting myself. Funny
- If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. Book
- It's interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. Daily
- 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
- Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character… Character
- 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… Drawn
- 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.… Blackboard
- Clichés so often befall vain people. Befall
- 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 chicken… Chicken
- 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 help… Advantage
- 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… Articulate
- 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… Been
- 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… Ago