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I will write my way into another life.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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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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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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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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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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Learn to write by writing
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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 made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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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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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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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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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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