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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.
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I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
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I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
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No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.
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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
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For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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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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Everyone knows everything eventually.
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It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at 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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It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
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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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He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
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I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
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I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.
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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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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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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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