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
Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for… — 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
