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It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

Ann Beattie

There can be too much communication between people.

Ann Beattie

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

Ann Beattie

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

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

It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is that every day we vacillate between examining our hangnails and speculating on cosmic order.

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

Who expects small things to survive when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments.

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie

Ann Beattie

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Born: September 8, 1947 (age 79)

Bio: Ann Beattie is an American novelist and short story writer. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the short story form.

Known for:

The State We're In: Maine Stories (2015)
The New Yorker Stories (1974)
Walks With Men: Fiction (2010)
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976)
Picturing Will (1989)

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