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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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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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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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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'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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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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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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Fiction is always really a labor.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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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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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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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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