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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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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.
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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
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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 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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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
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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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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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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
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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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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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I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.
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I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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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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That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.
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