“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, becau…”— Ann Beattie, theparisreview.orgTagged: How To Approach Others As A Writer, Your Relationship With Your Readers, Writing Fiction That Gets Digested As Fact