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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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California
Comfortable
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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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Learn to write by writing
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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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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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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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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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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