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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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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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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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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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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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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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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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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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