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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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California
Comfortable
Writing

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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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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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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
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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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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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I am a totally public person.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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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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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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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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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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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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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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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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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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