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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.
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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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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.
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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
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I will write my way into another life.
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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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One must not be shy where language is concerned.
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