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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: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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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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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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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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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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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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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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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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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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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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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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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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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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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.
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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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