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Ann Beattie Quotes

American - Writer | September 8, 1947 -

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

Music Time Place Meant To Be Falling

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.

Love Music Culture People Think Say

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.

Music Time Peace Creative New York

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.

Love Tea Think Hollywood Way Talk

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

Life Daily Myself Daily Life Think

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.

Camera Photography Know Aim Project

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

Love Give Does I Love Gratifying

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.

Said Never Depressing Cynical Been

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

Me Think Mysterious Write Things

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 Adventure Write Answers Things

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

Character Woman Man Interesting More

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.

You Way Explore Reason Expect Come

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