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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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 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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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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I will write my way into another life.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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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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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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