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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.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.
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Everybody believes in chance.
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If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
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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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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 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 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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I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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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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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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My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
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Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.
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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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Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
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Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
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