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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: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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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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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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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
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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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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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I will write my way into another life.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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