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Ann Patchett
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Ann Patchett
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: November 2
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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
Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.
Ann Patchett
You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.
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
Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.
Ann Patchett
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.
Ann Patchett
You should not have assault rifles in your home.
Ann Patchett
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
Ann Patchett
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
Ann Patchett
You can't say, I'm too busy writing to be political. You are one person.
Ann Patchett
No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.
Ann Patchett
Fiction is always really a labor.
Ann Patchett
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
Ann Patchett
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
Ann Patchett
Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.
Ann Patchett
Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.
Ann Patchett
I'm very comfortable writing.
Ann Patchett
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
Ann Patchett
Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.
Ann Patchett
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