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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Love
Beginnings
Honorable
Break
Half
Doe
Live
Everything
Sometimes
Endings

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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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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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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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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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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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