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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing 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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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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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.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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Learn to write by writing
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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