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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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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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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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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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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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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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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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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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