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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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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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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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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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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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