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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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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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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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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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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.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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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.
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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