Quote

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

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
Enjoy
Hate
Book
Enough
People
Mature
Reader

More quotes by Ann Patchett

Image
You are always someones favorite unfolding story
Ann Patchett
Image
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
Ann Patchett
Image
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
Ann Patchett
Image
You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
Ann Patchett
Image
Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
Ann Patchett
Image
That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, I'm glad you're reading this book or I'm glad you're getting this book or Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead.
Ann Patchett
Image
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
Ann Patchett
Image
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
Ann Patchett
Image
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.
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
Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
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
It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Ann Patchett
Image
You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
Ann Patchett
Image
If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.
Ann Patchett
Image
I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.
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
It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.
Ann Patchett
Image
Everybody believes in chance.
Ann Patchett
Image
Fiction is always really a labor.
Ann Patchett