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
Reader
Enjoy
Hate
Book
Enough
People
Mature

More quotes by Ann Patchett

Image
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
Ann Patchett
Image
You are always someones favorite unfolding story
Ann Patchett
Image
Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?
Ann Patchett
Image
Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.
Ann Patchett
Image
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
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
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
Image
That's important to me, to recommend books.
Ann Patchett
Image
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
Image
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
Image
He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.
Ann Patchett
Image
Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.
Ann Patchett
Image
I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
Ann Patchett
Image
I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.
Ann Patchett
Image
I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
Ann Patchett
Image
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
Ann Patchett
Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.
Ann Patchett
Image
It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
Ann Patchett
Image
Fiction is always really a labor.
Ann Patchett
Image
People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.
Ann Patchett