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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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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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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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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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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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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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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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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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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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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