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You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.
Ann Patchett
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.
Ann Patchett
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
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.
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 decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
Ann Patchett
The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.
Ann Patchett
That's important to me, to recommend books.
Ann Patchett
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.]
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If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins.
Ann Patchett
Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.
Ann Patchett
Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.
Ann Patchett
I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.
Ann Patchett
Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
Ann Patchett
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
Ann Patchett
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame
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
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.
Ann Patchett
I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
Ann Patchett
When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.
Ann Patchett