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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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I am a totally public person.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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