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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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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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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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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 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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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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