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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I have never liked Christmas. In my family, there were happy Thanksgivings and tolerable Easters, but Christmas was a holiday we failed at with real vigor. I blame this on my parents’ divorce.
#2 Christmas was a bad day for expectations and heart’s desires. My father’s presents were always the saddest because they were so consistently wrong. I never liked the presents, but I loved Christmas.
#3 My father wanted me to be a dental hygienist, unlike my sister, who was shooting the lights out in school. He thought I should be realistic about my chances of inheriting Disneyland.
#4 I loved the story, and I understood it was fiction. I knew that the narrator was a made-up person, but I still felt her pain. I understood that writers did not have to be confined by their own dull lives and petty Christmas sadness.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	19 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669354819
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Ann Patchett's This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have never liked Christmas. In my family, there were happy Thanksgivings and tolerable Easters, but Christmas was a holiday we failed at with real vigor. I blame this on my parents’ divorce.

#2

Christmas was a bad day for expectations and heart’s desires. My father’s presents were always the saddest because they were so consistently wrong. I never liked the presents, but I loved Christmas.

#3

My father wanted me to be a dental hygienist, unlike my sister, who was shooting the lights out in school. He thought I should be realistic about my chances of inheriting Disneyland.

#4

I loved the story, and I understood it was fiction. I knew that the narrator was a made-up person, but I still felt her pain. I understood that writers did not have to be confined by their own dull lives and petty Christmas sadness.

#5

The first completely happy Christmas I remember was when I was twenty-two. I was in graduate school in Iowa City and Jack Leggett, who was then the director of the program, asked me to house-sit for him over the holidays.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was always going to be a writer. I’ve known this for as long as I can remember. I was a terrible student when I was young, but I loved writing. I knew that I wanted to write, and I felt a strong sense of loyalty to it.

#2

Writing is a natural act, but it is also one of the most difficult. We should be able to tap into the constant narrative flow our minds provide, and direct it out into a stream of organized thought. But things go wrong when we sit down to write.

#3

If a person has never written a book, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world.

#4

I have learned that it is impossible to tell strangers what I do for a living. I have a novel in my head, and it is the happiest time in the arc of my writing process. I don’t take notes or make outlines, but I figure things out as I go.

#5

When I can’t think of another way to stall, I kill the butterfly by pressing it against my desk. The journey from the head to hand is perilous and lined with bodies. It is the road on which nearly everyone who wants to write gets lost.

#6

I learned a lot about writing from my poetry class with Robyn, and I was able to pass that class by editing myself off the page. I moved my poetry books to the bottom shelf and signed up to study fiction with Allan Gurganus.

#7

The best way to learn how to write is to write. If you miss a week, you have two stories due, which is like taking in a mouthful of water when you're trying not to drown.

#8

The art of writing comes way down the line, and the art of interpreting Bach. You must master the craft to get to the art. If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well.

#9

Forgiveness is the key to making art, and it is the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I will write the book I am capable of writing.

#10

Grace Paley was a teacher who taught me that writing cannot be compartmentalized. You don’t step out of the stream of your life to do your work. Work is the life, and who you are as a mother, teacher, friend, citizen, and artist is all the same person.

#11

I was a good writer, but I was shallow. I skated along on the surface, being clever. I wanted to be a better writer, and I would have to push myself to do it. I was the only person who could challenge myself to become a better writer.

#12

The brain is as soft and malleable as bread dough when we’re young. We are all influenced by books we passionately love and would kill to be influenced by, but we can also forget entire novels that we’ve read.

#13

The best way to learn how to write is from other people’s mistakes. If you pay attention, you’ll figure out what you need to avoid. It doesn’t take long to identify who the best critics in the class are, and those people become the ones you seek out.

#14

The best thing I got out of my time at Iowa was that I learned how to teach.

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