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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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California
Unfolding
Favorite
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Stories
Always

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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 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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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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