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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Tame
Rebellious
Bird
Love

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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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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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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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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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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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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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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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Learn to write by writing
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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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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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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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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