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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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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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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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