reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author… — 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
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they… — 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
No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but… — 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
