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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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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I will write my way into another life.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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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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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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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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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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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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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 read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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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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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.
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