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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. — Ann Beattie

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

Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool. — Ann Beattie

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways. — Ann Beattie

We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not. — Ray Kurzweil

Hydrox cookies (what happened to them? They used to be so good. Sugar. No doubt they're leaving out sugar) — Ann Beattie

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young. — Augustus

Would you kill half the population today in order to save our species from extinction? — Dan Brown

The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children. — Ann Beattie

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

People forget years and remember moments. — Ann Beattie

I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life. — Sammy Sosa

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

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander. — James Long

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. — Ann Beattie

I've spent my life supporting myself. — Ann Beattie

Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit. — Shams Tabrizi

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ... — Ann Beattie

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. — Ann Beattie

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. — Barbara Kruger

People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead. — Ann Beattie

The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style. — Ann Beattie

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours. — Ann Beattie

I collect my tools: sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, intellect. Night has fallen ... — Nikos Kazantzakis

The party is a true art form in Sydney and people practise it a great deal. You can really get quite lost in it. — Baz Luhrmann

Any life will seem dramatic if you omit mention of most of it. — Ann Beattie

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace. — Ann Beattie

It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out. — Robert Goulet

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

Because I don't work with an outline, writing a story is like crossing a stream, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock, now I'm on this rock. — Ann Beattie

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

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

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak. — Ann Beattie

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

Time to travel, to acquiesce to fate. — Patti Smith

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. — Elizabeth Kostova

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own. — Ann Beattie