I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing… — 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
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is… — 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
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
If what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
[I remember going] to a hotel gym at six o'clock in the morning, and the television was on, and it's some drama… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of… — 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
People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to… — 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
![“I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.” quote by Ann Patchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/47b/ann-patchett-670_enough_i-really-do-think-that-our-subconscious_402904.jpg)
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