Ann Patchett Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Giving

• Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

  Ann Patchett

  Live Life, Book, Reading

• I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

  Ann Patchett

  Grief, Believe, Book

• I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

  Ann Patchett

  Hate, Book, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• That's important to me, to recommend books.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

  Ann Patchett

  Hate, Book, I Hate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Should

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.168, A&C Black

• That's one of the many things about having the bookstore that I adore. I can walk into the store and say to somebody, "I'm glad you're reading this book" or "I'm glad you're getting this book" or "Don't get that book. I read that book and hated that book. Let's get you this book instead."

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Stores

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Want

• My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

• I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Writing, Character

  Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

• I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore" and "Kids! Come here, come here! This is the woman who owns the bookstore." That's incredible. I can say to that, "Thank you for shopping local. Thank you for coming in. What are you reading? Let's talk about books." It's about something I'm doing as opposed to somehow something I am. I feel comfortable and positive in that role. Because it's about reading. It's about books. It's about learning. It's about business and tax base.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• 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

  Book, Writing, Want

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.30, A&C Black

• I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Stories, Persons

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

  Ann Patchett

  Jobs, Book, Independent

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