“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of… — 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
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
You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't… — 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
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
“Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.” — 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
