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. Ann Beattie Read Quote
It’s interesting, though, that in daily life, I think of myself as being relatively unobservant. Ann Beattie Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that. Ann Beattie Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with characters, not the other way around. Ann Beattie Read Quote
I’ve been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes. Ann Beattie Read Quote