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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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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.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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Learn to write by writing
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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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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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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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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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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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 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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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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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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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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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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