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Ann Patchett was born in Los Angeles in 1963.
* She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, at the age of six.
* She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1984.
* She received an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1987.
* Her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, was published in 1992.
* She has since published seven more novels, including Bel Canto, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002.
* She is also the author of two books of nonfiction, Truth & Beauty and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
* She is the co-owner of Parnassus Books, an independent bookstore in Nashville.
* She is married to Karl VanDevender.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

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Life Lessons

Ann Patchett

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

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Hope

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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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Writing

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