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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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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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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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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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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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