“If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.” IfsWantWritingTryingTwoHoursMinutesFiguresAmountPicksTwentiesDesksSpares Book:This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.” IfsWorldWritingTryingLooksPersonsIdeasRealHardEyeTurnsGivenAssumingBrilliantTricksDiggingBrilliant Ideas Author:Ann Patchett
“I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.” IfsThinkingWantTryingPersonsImportantGrowsBoringNovelists Author:Ann Patchett
“If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.” IfsWritingTryingEndsHomeTiredThe End Of The DayWaitress Author:Ann Patchett
“My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."” ThinkingTryingBookTogetherNovelCircumstancesStranger Author:Ann Patchett
“That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.” ThinkingTryingSometimesAbleUsedCertainForeverOne ThingShiningObviousConfusionI've LearnedFadesBangsBatteriesThings I've LearnedShine On Author:Ann Patchett
“If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.” IfsTryingTurnsNextTurn Off Book:What Now? Source: What Now?
“Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.” PeopleKnowsMenWantTryingSaidEndsHappensDiesKnow HowNiceTiredIntentionLifetimeSpendingPermanentI Want YouVery HappyRest Of Your LifeStop TryingSingle RelationshipSome NiceNice Man Author:Ann Patchett
“I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.” ThinkingWritingTryingStatesEasyNaturalImpressNashvilleEasy Going Author:Ann Patchett
