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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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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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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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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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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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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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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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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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