People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots… — 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
