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Everyone knows everything eventually.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Eventually
Everyone
Everything

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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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Learn to write by writing
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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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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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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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 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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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