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Fiction is always really a labor.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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LA
California
Fiction
Really
Always
Labor

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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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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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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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