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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
Author
Novelist
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LA
California
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Looking
Write
Art
Writing
Something
Love
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Sells

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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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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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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 you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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I am a totally public person.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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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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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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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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