I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them. — 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
“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
“Marina brushed her hand across the back of her neck and dislodged something with a hard shell. She had learned in time… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was… — 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 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
“Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“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
“He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share
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
“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
“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
“...Nebraska was white, a page as still as fallen snow. It was not crosshatched with roads, overrun with the hard lines of interstate systems.… — Ann Patchett Copy Share
“Clearly he needed a father, but some other father, any other father, would have been preferable.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share
