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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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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. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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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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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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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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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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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 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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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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