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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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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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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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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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