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You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
Ann Patchett
But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
Ann Patchett
If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.
Ann Patchett
He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a magnificence that lay beyond description. At the moment one is sure that all is lost, look at what is gained!
Ann Patchett
It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
Ann Patchett
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
Ann Patchett
If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
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
I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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
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
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
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
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
Ann Patchett
We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.
Ann Patchett
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
Ann Patchett
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
Ann Patchett
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
Ann Patchett
I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.
Ann Patchett
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
Ann Patchett