“Maybe once he wished I was his daughter, because it was plain that my news was hard for him to hear.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“We all have ideas, sometimes good ones, not to mention the gift of emotional turmoil that every childhood provides.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The impressions we pick up as children, when our minds are still open to influence and as soft as damp sponges, are… — 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
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
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
“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
“His own daughters constantly presented him with a mathematical impossibility, one minute running around the house wearing pajamas covered in images of… — 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
“the story of his day. “Americans love the idea of vaccinating Africans. What could be nicer than a photograph of dusty little… — 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 Image
“Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
