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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
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LA
California
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Miserable
Awful
Stay
Business
Anything
Better
Writing

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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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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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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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Learn to write by writing
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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