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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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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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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 don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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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 was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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