Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you… — 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
“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
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“For twenty-two years Sabine had told her stories to one person, so that the action and the telling had become inseparable. What… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Life, Teresa knew by now, was a series of losses. It was other things too, better things, but the losses were as… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came; there wasn't… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.” — 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
I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I was never happier than on the nights we stayed home, lying on the living room rug. We talked about classes and… — 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
