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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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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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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
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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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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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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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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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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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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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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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