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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.
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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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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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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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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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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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