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1. "Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that." ~ Ann Beattie
2. "I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak." ~ Ann Beattie
3. "It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that." ~ Ann Beattie
4. "While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story." ~ Ann Beattie
5. "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
6. "I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now." ~ Ann Beattie
7. "I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair." ~ Ann Beattie
8. "I've spent my life supporting myself." ~ Ann Beattie
9. "If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that." ~ Ann Beattie
10. "It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings." ~ Ann Beattie
11. "Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson." ~ Ann Beattie
12. "Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony." ~ Ann Beattie
13. "Clichés so often befall vain people." ~ Ann Beattie
14. "Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits." ~ Ann Beattie
15. "Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways." ~ Ann Beattie
16. "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." ~ Ann Beattie
17. "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." ~ Ann Beattie
18. "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
19. "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." ~ Ann Beattie
20. "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
21. "Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't." ~ Ann Beattie
22. "Jane remembers those years, though, as if they had been [a movie]--in part because her friends...always talked about everything as if it was over ("Remember last night?"), while holding out the possibility that whatever happened could be rerun. Neil didn't have that sense of things. He thought people shouldn't romanticize ordinary life. "Our struggles, our little struggles," he would whisper, in bed, at night. Sometimes he or she would click on some of the flashlights and consider the ceiling, with the radiant swirls around the bright nuclei, the shadows like opened oysters glistening in brine. (In the '80s, the champagne was always waiting.)" ~ Ann Beattie
23. "The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style." ~ Ann Beattie

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I always clean before the cleaning lady comes. If not, when I come home, I can't find anything. Cleaning ladies are always hiding things you leave out."
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