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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.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
Ann Patchett
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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.
Ann Patchett
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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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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.
Ann Patchett
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
Ann Patchett
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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.
Ann Patchett
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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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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
Ann Patchett
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
Ann Patchett
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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.
Ann Patchett
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
Ann Patchett
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
Ann Patchett
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
Ann Patchett