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Famous Ann Patchett Quotes
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.”
Source: State of Wonder
“I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.”
“I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.”
“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.”
“She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.”
Source: State of Wonder
