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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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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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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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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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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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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.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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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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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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