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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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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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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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 think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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The hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
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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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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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