Quotes by Ann Beattie

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 terribly happy with.

Common

Littles

Together

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

Dramatic

Ifs

Seems

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 on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

Rocks

Stories

Writing

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. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Clouds

Long

Moving

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Falling In Love

Place And Time

Were Meant To Be

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

Names

People

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 adventure. It wouldn’t have any vitality.

Home

Travel

Writing

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 often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

Admire

Glowing

Males

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

Disadvantages

Hair

Long

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

Mysterious Things

Thinking

Writing

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Bleak

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Clouds

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Disadvantages

Doe

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Falling In Love

Giving Up

Glowing

Grace

Hair

Happens

Helping

Home

Ifs

Interesting

Irony

Littles

Long

Males

Marriage

Men

Moving

Mysterious Things

Names

People

Place And Time

Proportion

Reading

Real

Rocks

Seems

Self

Serious

Stories

Style

Thinking

Together

Travel

Trouble

Trying

Way

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Quotes by Ann Beattie

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 terribly happy with.

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

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 on this rock, now I’m on this rock.

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. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

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

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 adventure. It wouldn’t have any vitality.

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 often a novel I admire, but not all of their works.

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

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

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