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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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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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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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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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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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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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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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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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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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I am a totally public person.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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