Media Quotes by Ann Patchett

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

— Ann Patchett

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

— Ann Patchett

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

“Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention.”

— Ann Patchett

“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

“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.”

— Ann Patchett

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

— Ann Patchett

“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.”

— Ann Patchett

“Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.”

— Ann Patchett

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

“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

“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