I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you’re able to listen to, trust, and implement… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You have to remember that they could go at any time, and if a man’s smart he never forgets that.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could… — 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 do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I only remember… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtrack”: Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“In our friendship I had spent a lot of time telling Lucy to pull herself up, to get over the past and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Marina brushed her hand across the back of her neck and dislodged something with a hard shell. She had learned in time… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“What now is not just a panic-stricken question tossed into a dark unknown. What now can also be our joy. It is… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers. He made his policy… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“had I listened to no one, or only to the people who liked me, the workshop would have been a waste of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but… — 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
“...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.” — 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
