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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
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LA
California
Sang
Saving
Room
Rooms
Persons
Person
Every
Life

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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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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 always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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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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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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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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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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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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