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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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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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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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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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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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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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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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