Ann Patchett Quotes - Page 7

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• The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

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  Art, Artist, Kind

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.1, A&C Black

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• I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

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  Writing, Thinking, Nashville

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• I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

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  Book, Writing, Want

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

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• shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us

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  Shame, Should, Circumstances

  Ann Patchett (2004). “Truth and Beauty: A Friendship”

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• You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

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  Sadness, World, Places To Go

  Ann Patchett (2011). “The Patron Saint of Liars”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

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  Fiction, Saws, Odd

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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

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  Jobs, Book, Independent

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

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  Home, Writing, Tired

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

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  Writing, Buttons, Hot

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

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  Cutting, Light, Tree

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• I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

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  Thinking, Noble, Figures

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

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  Pain, Wanted, My Own

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• 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.

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  Book, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fiction is always really a labor.

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  Fiction, Labor

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

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  Whole Life, Whole, Screens

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

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  Teaching, Skills, Two

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

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  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "Novelist Ann Patchett on how independent bookstores build community". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. September 13, 2016.

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• But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.

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  Letting Go, Gathering, Information

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• Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

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  Would Be, Outcomes, Sopranos

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Bel Canto”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

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  Knows, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

  Ann Patchett

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

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

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

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  Writing, Process, Changed

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

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• 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 has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more.

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  Night, Thinking, Should Have

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• That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

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  Thinking, Shine On, Confusion

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• Everybody believes in chance.

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  Believe, Chance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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