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Ann Beattie

Born: September 8, 1947

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer, novelist, professor

Biography: Ann Beattie is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form. Her work has been compared to that of Alice Adams, J.D. Salinger, John Cheever, and John Updike.

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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.”

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

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“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.”

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

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“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.”

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“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 do hope they're on target.”

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“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.”

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

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“I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around.”

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

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“I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.”

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“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 going to eradicate the mistakes.”

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“I've spent my life supporting myself.”

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

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