Best Ann Patchett Quotes
- I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it. Audience
- Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by… Inspirational
- People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog. Baby
- You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws… Absolutely
- Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the… Always Say
- I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's… Any
- It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something… Achieved
- I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. Become Consumed
- Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering. Everyone
- I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time… Any
- It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. All
- Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to… Appreciate
- Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea… Afternoon
- I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they… Believe
- The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish,… Bergman
- The timing of the electrical failure seemed dramatic and perfectly correct, as if the lights had said, "You have no need for sight. Listen. Correct
- Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. Bad
- The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your… Adding
- It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. All
- He believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. True life was kept safe in the lines of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin… Ability
- There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength… Every Second
- He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this...on that night he thinks that no one… Asked
- Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith. All
- Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. Belief
- You are always someones favorite unfolding story Favorite