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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
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Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.
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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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I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.
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You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
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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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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
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I am a totally public person.
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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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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
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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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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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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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Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
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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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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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Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
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We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
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I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
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