Quote

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

Ann Patchett

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Writer
LA
California
Knew
Sleep
Words
Mother
Beautiful
Home
Bed

More quotes by Ann Patchett

Image
Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
Ann Patchett
Image
You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.
Ann Patchett
Image
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.
Ann Patchett
Image
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
Ann Patchett
Image
You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.
Ann Patchett
Image
When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.
Ann Patchett
Image
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
Ann Patchett
Image
I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
Ann Patchett
Image
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
Ann Patchett
Image
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
Ann Patchett
Image
If a person has never given writing a try, 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. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.
Ann Patchett
Image
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
Ann Patchett
Image
Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
Ann Patchett
Image
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
Ann Patchett
Image
If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, No. That is not where I want to go.
Ann Patchett
Image
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
Ann Patchett
Image
I'm very comfortable writing.
Ann Patchett
Image
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
Ann Patchett
Image
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.
Ann Patchett
Image
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
Ann Patchett