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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 think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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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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Everybody believes in chance.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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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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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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 was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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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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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
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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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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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