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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: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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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I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.
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There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
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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 want to stand with somebody's praise.
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I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.
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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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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
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I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
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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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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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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 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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