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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Stories
Always
Unfolding

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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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Learn to write by writing
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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 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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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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