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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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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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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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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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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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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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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 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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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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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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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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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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