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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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Learn to write by writing
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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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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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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 am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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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.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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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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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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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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