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I'm very comfortable writing.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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Writing
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You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
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
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.
Ann Patchett
I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
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Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.
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I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
Ann Patchett
No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
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
You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.
Ann Patchett
He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.
Ann Patchett
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
Ann Patchett
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
Ann Patchett
I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.
Ann Patchett
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
Ann Patchett
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
Ann Patchett
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
Fiction is always really a labor.
Ann Patchett
Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.
Ann Patchett
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.
Ann Patchett
Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
Ann Patchett