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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 used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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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 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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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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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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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