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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
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I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.
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Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
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Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.
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I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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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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Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
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If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
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When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
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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 secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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