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Famous Ann Patchett Quotes
“That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.”
“I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.”
“If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.”
“I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.”
“When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.”
“Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.”
“My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.”
“Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.”
“I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.”
“I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.”
“Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.”
“I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.”
“I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.”
“I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.”
“If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.”
“You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.”
“You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person.”
“I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.”