My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If you've had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore"… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end… I'll die, you'll… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three… — Ann Patchett Copy Share 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… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into the beautiful… — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share
If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write. — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“She didn't know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much… — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“When you think of love you think as an American. You must think like a Russian. It is a more expansive view.' 'Americans havea… — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“...Nebraska was white, a page as still as fallen snow. It was not crosshatched with roads, overrun with the hard lines of interstate systems.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share
