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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: Bag Beautiful Beautiful Place Book Bunch Fur Give Had Happens Huge Huge Impact Impact Influenced Loved Magic Make Me Mountain Novel People Place Put See Several Shape Sleeping Stay Them Tuberculosis Very Years

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You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: About Absolutely Adult Been Brilliant Dinner Effect Eight Film Films Had Having Huge Jaws Later Like Me Only Out Parents See Something Taking Thinking Up Walk Whereas Winds You

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Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: Art Because Discipline Looking Love Sell Something Write You

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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.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: About Baby Bad Dog Gave Me People Still Time Want Wanted Wanting

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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: Always Being Being A Teenager Disastrous Fluffy Life Magazine Most My Life Pieces Really Say Teenager Things Two Up Well Were Wife Wound Writing

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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.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: About Bad Bad Review Criticism Crushing Either Exactly Get Go Great Level Me Minutes Operate Praise Really Review Same Same Level Seem Ten Ten Minutes Thrilling Way You

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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

~Ann Patchett

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Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: Living Loop Nature Oblivious Out Part Person Tennessee

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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: Become Book Consumed Need People Selling Think Writing I Think

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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.

~Ann Patchett

Topics: Any Could Grocery Hours Like List Magazine Now Sleep Two Voice Write Writing I Can

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 2nd, 1963

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