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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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 decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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