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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 will write my way into another life.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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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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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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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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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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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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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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Everybody believes in chance.
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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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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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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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