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Famous Ann Patchett Quotes
“Nothing is more interesting than time: the days that are endless, the days that get away.”
“Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.”
“The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.”
“Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.”
“The kind of dark that electricity wants us to forget ever existed”
“You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.”
“Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.”
“Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.”
“You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.”
“The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.”
“I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.”
“There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.”
“Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.”
“I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.”
“My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.”