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If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.

Ann Patchett

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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
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I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
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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 was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
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There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
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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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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 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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I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
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The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.
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The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
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