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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular, disciplined practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.
— Ann Patchett The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
Tags: writing, work

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Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
— Ann Patchett What Now?
Tags: life-lessons
I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
— Ann Patchett
Tags: two, three, only, people
I'd like to read all of Proust.
— Ann Patchett
Tags: read, like
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?
— Ann Patchett
Tags: think, i-am, people, nature
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
Tags: out, living, person, nature
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