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Ann Beattie

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Ann Beattie

Birthname

Birthday: September 8, 1947

Educated At: American University, University Of Connecticut

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Professor, Short Story Writer, Novelist, Writer

Total quotes: 1

“At readings I’m quite often speechless, actually. I am really very happy that I am striking a nerve. But it’s when they take it a step further and think that I have the salve for the nerve I’ve hit, or that I have personally lived through that myself, and that therefore we have a common bond, because they have also lived through that—then I begin to realize that what is between me and other people isn’t kinship, but a kind of a gulf.”

— Ann Beattie, Ann Beattie, The Art of Fiction No. 209

Tagged: How To Approach Others As A Writer, Your Relationship With Your Readers, Writing Fiction That Gets Digested As Fact

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