Time Quotes by Ann Patchett

“Most of the time we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are.”

— Ann Patchett

“In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.”

— Ann Patchett

“They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.”

— Ann Patchett

“Time could barely pull the second hand forward on the clock...”

— Ann Patchett

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

— Ann Patchett

“This was her moment, the perfect now.”

— Ann Patchett

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

— Ann Patchett

I go through long periods of time when I don't write, and I'm fine.

— Ann Patchett

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain…

— Ann Patchett

“Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?”

— Ann Patchett

“...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.”

— Ann Patchett

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

— Ann Patchett

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

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

— Ann Patchett

“had I listened to no one, or only to the people who liked me, the workshop would have been a waste of…

— Ann Patchett

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in…

— Ann Patchett

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything…

— Ann Patchett

“I do not remember our love unfolding, that we got to know one another and in time became friends. I only remember…

— Ann Patchett

The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows…

— Ann Patchett

I had a real computer solitaire problem. I'd gotten to the point where I had to win a game before I could…

— Ann Patchett

“Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back…

— Ann Patchett

“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

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

“In our friendship I had spent a lot of time telling Lucy to pull herself up, to get over the past and…

— Ann Patchett

“...fiction writing is like duck hunting. You go to the right place at the right time with the right dog. You get…

— Ann Patchett

“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

“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

“What I like about the job of being a novelist, and at the same time what I find so exhausting about it,…

— Ann Patchett

“No one could see her objectively anyway. Even those who saw her for the first time, before she had opened her mouth…

— Ann Patchett

“Certain things existed out of time. It was ten years ago, it was this morning. In that way the accident was like…

— Ann Patchett

“Most of the time, we're loved for what we can do rather than for who we are. It's not such a bad…

— Ann Patchett

“I saw it myself. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers. He made his policy…

— Ann Patchett

“Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to…

— Ann Patchett

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

— Ann Patchett

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but…

— Ann Patchett

“You have to remember that they could go at any time, and if a man’s smart he never forgets that.”

— Ann Patchett

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

— Ann Patchett

You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully,…

— Ann Patchett

“you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you’re able to listen to, trust, and implement…

— Ann Patchett