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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
Novelist
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LA
California
World
Miserable
Awful
Stay
Business
Anything
Better
Writing

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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 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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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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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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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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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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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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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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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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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