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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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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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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 think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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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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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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Learn to write by writing
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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