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I'm very comfortable writing.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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California
Comfortable
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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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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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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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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.
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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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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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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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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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