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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I am a totally public person.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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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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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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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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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
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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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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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