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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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I will write my way into another life.
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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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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