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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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Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
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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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I'm very comfortable writing.
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The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
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It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
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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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Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.
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Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.
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The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
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When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
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Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
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If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
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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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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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reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.
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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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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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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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Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
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