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I am a totally public person.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
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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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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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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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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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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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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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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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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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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
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