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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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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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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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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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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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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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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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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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