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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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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.
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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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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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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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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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If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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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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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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