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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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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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When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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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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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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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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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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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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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
Ann Patchett