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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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.
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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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Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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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 am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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I'm very comfortable writing.
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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I am a totally public person.
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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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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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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 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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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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