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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Nonfiction
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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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.
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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 don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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I will write my way into another life.
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