Ann Beattie Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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.

I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.

When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

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

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.

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

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

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

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

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 think and talk to each other.