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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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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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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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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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