Ann Beattie

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

— Ann Beattie

I've spent my life supporting myself.

— Ann Beattie

The admiration of another writer’s work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

— Ann Beattie

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't…

— Ann Beattie

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in…

— Ann Beattie

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people…

— Ann Beattie

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the…

— Ann Beattie

I feel that these stories are being written to articulate certain confusions and disappointments, and I do mean to shake up the…

— Ann Beattie

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it.

— Ann Beattie

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone,…

— Ann Beattie

Because I don’t work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I’m on this rock, now I’m…

— 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…

— Ann Beattie

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going,…

— Ann Beattie

People forget years and remember moments.

— Ann Beattie

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

— Ann Beattie

Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last…

— Ann Beattie

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

— Ann Beattie

“Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it…

— 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…

— Ann Beattie

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

— Ann Beattie