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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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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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