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That's important to me, to recommend books.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
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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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I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.
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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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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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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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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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There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
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Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.
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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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You should not have assault rifles in your home.
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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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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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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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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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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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Fiction is always really a labor.
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That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
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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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