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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I will write my way into another life.
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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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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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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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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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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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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