Ann Patchett Quotes

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Ann Patchett

Profession : Author

Birth : December 2, 1963

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

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 nature.

Ann Patchett

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

I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out.

Ann Patchett

I think I would probably have been a good mother.

Ann Patchett

My favorite thing about Nashville is the parks.

Ann Patchett

I'm just such a Luddite, and I want to write books about Luddites.

Ann Patchett

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

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

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.

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

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

Ann Patchett

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

Ann Patchett

I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.

Ann Patchett