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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
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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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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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Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
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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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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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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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It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
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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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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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