Ann Beattie Work Quotations

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.

I think a lot of the difference between my newer work and the older work is that I would have tried to imply some of those things before.

Well, I've found myself a lot of times with student manuscripts, saying to them that it worries me that their work seems hermetically sealed.

whose work has made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.

I like the notion that people are appreciative of the fact that my work is sometimes allusive and that there is an interrelationship of the arts.