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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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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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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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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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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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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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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 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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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 love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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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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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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