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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 believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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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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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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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 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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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