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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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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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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
Ann Patchett
I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
Ann Patchett
Fiction is always really a labor.
Ann Patchett
Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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