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Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it’s really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it’s really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. » Ann Patchett
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. » Ann Patchett
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for. » Ann Patchett
The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. » Ann Patchett
It’s like you don’t want to be dislodged from your suffering. » Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
If someone loves you for what you can do then it’s flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. » Ann Patchett
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you’re looking to sell something. » Ann Patchett
Anyone who doesn’t read doesn’t have any business writing. » Ann Patchett
I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn’t the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart. » Ann Patchett
My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them. » Ann Patchett
People die, terrible things happen. I know this now. You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go. » Ann Patchett, The Patron Saint of Liars
Wearing shoes in the house was barbaric. There was almost as much indignity in wearing shoes in the house as there was in being kidnapped. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
When you think of love you think as an American. You must think like a Russian. It is a more expansive view.’ ‘Americans havea bad habbit of thinking like Americans,’ Roxane said kindly. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
If you’ve had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins. » Ann Patchett, The Magician’s Assistant
I have been shown so much kindness in my life, so for me to write books about good, kind people seems completely natural. » Ann Patchett
The ’70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store. » Ann Patchett
You learn every time you write a book, and then you take that new knowledge and experience into the next book. Hopefully, every time, you raise the bar. » Ann Patchett
I’ve been writing the same book my whole life – that you’re in one family, and all of a sudden, you’re in another family, and it’s not your choice, and you can’t get out. » Ann Patchett
Never be so focused on what you are looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find. » Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. » Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty
Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined. » Ann Patchett, What Now?
Part of what I love about novels and dogs is that they are so beautifully oblivious to economic concerns. We serve them, and in return they thrive. It’s not their responsibility to figure out where the rent is coming from. » Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Women had read about their liberation in books but not many of them had seen what it looked like in action. » Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words. » Ann Patchett
There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. » Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. » Ann Patchett
If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again. » Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say. » Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
There would never been an end to all the things I wished I’d asked my father. After so many years I thought less about his unwillingness to disclose and more about how stupid I’d been not to try harder. » Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels the weight of him in her chest as he comes into her arms. He is her son, her beloved child, and she takes him back. » Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it. » Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
No one tells the truth to people they don’t actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth. » Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
It’s always better to have too much to read than not enough. » Ann Patchett
You have to serve those who need to be served, not just the ones who make you feel good about yourself. » Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it? » Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
I imagine there are people out there who got a dog when what they wanted was a baby, but I wonder if there aren’t other people who had a baby when all they really needed was a dog. » Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
There’s no protecting anyone,” Fix said, and reached over from his wheelchair to put his hand on hers. “Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves. » Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall …. » Ann Patchett, Truth & Beauty
It’s easier to love a woman when you can’t understand a word she’s saying. » Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. » Ann Patchett
The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page. » Ann Patchett, The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
There would never been an end to all the things I wished I’d asked my father. » Ann Patchett, The Dutch House
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do. » Ann Patchett, State of Wonder
She understood in life that a person was only allowed one trip down to hell. » Ann Patchett, State of Wonder