81 Quotes by Ann Beattie

That is the strange thing; I don't know if you want to call it the subconscious, but things that I don't seem to notice are getting stored away.

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.

If the waitress shows up and doesn't have an exit line, that isn't true to life - I'm hard pressed to think of a waitress who just walks away.

What will happen can’t be stopped. Aim for Grace.

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.

I don’t even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It’s an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

I think that I’m serious, but I don’t think that I’m inordinately bleak.

Might as well wear loafers without socks. Or take out a membership at the Reading Room on the path above the beach – the Reading Room, where the joke was that there wasn’t a book in the entire place.