Ann Beattie Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“I've spent my life supporting myself.”

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

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

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