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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.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Everybody believes in chance.
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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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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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Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
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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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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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It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.
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If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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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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