“Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.” — Ann Beattie Quote

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

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.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

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

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

We always assume that what we do is the way it should be done - that's not always the case.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

Most people assume you change with success.