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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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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