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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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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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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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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 could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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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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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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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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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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