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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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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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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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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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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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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 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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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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Learn to write by writing
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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