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Ann Beattie

"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits."

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Donna Grant

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."

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Donna Grant

"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."

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Donna Grant

"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."

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Donna Grant

"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."

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Donna Grant

"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."

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Donna Grant

"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."

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Donna Grant

"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."

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Donna Grant

"A writer illuminates the lights of her heart so that everyone can see themselves in the mirror of her thoughts."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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Ann Beattie
"You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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

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

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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Ann Beattie
"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."

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

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

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