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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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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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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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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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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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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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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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