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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: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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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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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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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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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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The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
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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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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.
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