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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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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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People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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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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Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
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Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
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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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I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
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Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
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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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My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
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Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
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I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.
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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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I am a totally public person.
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I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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