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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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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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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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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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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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