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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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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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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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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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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 never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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