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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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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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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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