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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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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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