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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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Learn to write by writing
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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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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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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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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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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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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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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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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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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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