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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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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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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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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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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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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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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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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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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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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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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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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
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