I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life. (Ann Patchett)

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Ann Patchett

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