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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: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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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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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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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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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'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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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 used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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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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