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Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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This is my job, my livelihood: the health and the well-being of the publishing industry. We're all responsible for this.
Ann Patchett
Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.
Ann Patchett
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
Ann Patchett
People always say, Can writing be taught? I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.
Ann Patchett
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
Ann Patchett
Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
Ann Patchett
You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
Ann Patchett
Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
Ann Patchett
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.
Ann Patchett
I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
Ann Patchett
I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
Ann Patchett
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
Ann Patchett
The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.
Ann Patchett
Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand.
Ann Patchett
Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
Ann Patchett
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
Ann Patchett
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
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.
Ann Patchett
Learn to write by writing
Ann Patchett
Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
Ann Patchett