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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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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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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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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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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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