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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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