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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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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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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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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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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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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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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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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, You have no need for sight. Listen.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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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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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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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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