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If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
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He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
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I will write my way into another life.
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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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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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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 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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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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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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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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You are always someones favorite unfolding story
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I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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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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Fiction is always really a labor.
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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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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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