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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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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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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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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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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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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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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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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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