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I'm very comfortable writing.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Novelist
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LA
California
Comfortable
Writing

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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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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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Everybody believes in chance.
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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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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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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.
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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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Fiction is always really a labor.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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