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Famous Ann Patchett Quotes
“I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.”
“It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper.”
“I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.”
“The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.”
“It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.”
“Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.”
“The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.”
“Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.”
“She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.”
“Everyone knows everything eventually.”
“Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.”