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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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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.
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I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
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Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
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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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That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.
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Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
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I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
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No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
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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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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 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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If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.
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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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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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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
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I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
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That's important to me, to recommend books.
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