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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: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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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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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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 believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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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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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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