Writer Quotes by Ann Patchett

Fiction is always really a labor.

— Ann Patchett

I will write my way into another life.

— Ann Patchett

I'm very comfortable writing.

— Ann Patchett

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

— Ann Patchett

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

— Ann Patchett

That's important to me, to recommend books.

— Ann Patchett

Learn to write by writing

— Ann Patchett

You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer.

— Ann Patchett

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to…

— Ann Patchett

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

— Ann Patchett

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

— Ann Patchett

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

— Ann Patchett

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

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

— Ann Patchett

“as far as I’m concerned, writer’s block is a myth.”

— Ann Patchett

“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get…

— Ann Patchett

“I decided I was going to make up a novel, and that the novel was going to get me out of the…

— Ann Patchett

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone…

— Ann Patchett

“An essential element of being a writer is learning whom to listen to and whom to ignore where your work is concerned.…

— Ann Patchett

I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people,…

— Ann Patchett

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you…

— Ann Patchett

“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

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are…

— Ann Patchett

“Novel writing, I soon discovered, is like channel swimming: a slow and steady stroke over a long distance in a cold, dark…

— Ann Patchett

“if I wanted to be a better writer, I was the only person who could push myself to do it. It was…

— Ann Patchett

That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to…

— Ann Patchett

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability…

— Ann Patchett

“If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can…

— Ann Patchett

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as…

— Ann Patchett

“She told the woman to go to one of the online agent sites that list agents who are looking for new clients,…

— Ann Patchett

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people…

— 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

“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into…

— Ann Patchett

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not…

— Ann Patchett

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was…

— Ann Patchett

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore"…

— Ann Patchett

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

— Ann Patchett

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

— Ann Patchett

I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

— Ann Patchett