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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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.
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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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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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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 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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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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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, 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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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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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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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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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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