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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Novelist
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LA
California
Irrelevant
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Facts
Stories
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Life

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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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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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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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