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Ann Patchett Quotes

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1963

Topics

Business Writing Who Read Anyone

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

Positive College Sweet Atmosphere

The dot stands for 'detail' - always be paying attention to detail. I feel that people take you as serious as you take yourself. I spent a lot of time working on my craft, developing my style, and after I came out of my little incubation, I promised that I would pay attention to detail.

Time Style Yourself People Detail

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

John Henry Carver

Science War Medicine Engineering Try

I have little children, 5 1/2 and 1 1/2, and I thought I should document my life, because by the time they're in the mid-20s, they'll be able to say, 'This is what he did.'

Life Children Time Thought My Life

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Mary Harris Jones

Voice Hell You Country Vote Never

Our assimilation efforts are based on building long-term relationships and value with our customers, and the success of these efforts is measured partly by our ability to stimulate customers to make a second purchase within 90 days.

Success Value Building Relationships

You shouldn't say, 'Well, we cannot go there,' before we even had the conversation.

You Conversation Go Say Well Cannot

No one anticipates divorce when they're exchanging vows, and it can be devastating emotionally and financially. To ease the financial side of the blow, you need to maintain your financial identity in your relationship. That means having your own credit history - you need your own credit card - and your own savings and retirement accounts.

Relationship History Identity Credit

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.

Understanding Understand Never Turn

I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

Free Down Congress Events Committee

If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

End You Laws Would Our Laid

We have been working towards providing a clean environment to the people of India, and we are doing it out of our own conviction.

People Environment Doing India Clean

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