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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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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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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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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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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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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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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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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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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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 say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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