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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Quality
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Sincerity
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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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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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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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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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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I will write my way into another life.
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Learn to write by writing
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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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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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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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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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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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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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