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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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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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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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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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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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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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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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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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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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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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