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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 am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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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.
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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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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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