“Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows… — 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 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
“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 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
