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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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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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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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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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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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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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