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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 was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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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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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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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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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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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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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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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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