There is some reason, obviously, that yo... by Ann Beattie

Author Fiction Reason short stories Contemporary Literature

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 different from what you would expect.

- Ann Beattie

Other quotes by Ann Beattie

Favorite

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

- Ann Beattie

Writers

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.

- Ann Beattie

Love

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.

- Ann Beattie

Photography

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.

- Ann Beattie

Music Time

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.

- Ann Beattie

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

- Ann Beattie

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