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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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LA
California
Eventually
Everyone
Everything

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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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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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