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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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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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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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