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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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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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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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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.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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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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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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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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