“Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Fix was starting to see that this was the way life worked once you got older and the kids came; there wasn't… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had opened her mouth… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“You have to remember that they could go at any time, and if a man’s smart he never forgets that.” — 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
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
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The entire time Albie followed Beverly around the house doing what the children referred to as “the stripper soundtrack”: Boom chicka-boom, boom-boom… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I think that what influences us in literature comes less from what we love and more from what we happen to pick… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit… — 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
There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“What now is not just a panic-stricken question tossed into a dark unknown. What now can also be our joy. It is… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assessment of strangers is a confidence-shaking business… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. — 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
