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You are always someones favorite unfolding story

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Unfolding
Favorite
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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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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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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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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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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