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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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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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 have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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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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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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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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Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.
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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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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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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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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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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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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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