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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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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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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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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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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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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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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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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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I am a totally public person.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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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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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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