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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 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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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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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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