Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere. — 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… — 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
If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours. — 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
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps… — 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
If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really,… — 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
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
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
