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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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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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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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