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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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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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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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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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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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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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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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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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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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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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