“I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.” Quote by Ann Patchett
“I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them.” PeopleIfsHelpingWould BeMotherStepsFourChildhoodNeededDegreesThirdsSevenLoyaltySiblingVaryCloseness Author:Ann Patchett
“My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.” WritingProcessChangedHarderWriting Process Author:Ann Patchett
“I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.” WritingIdeasGood ThingsFloatingNotebook Author:Ann Patchett
“The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.” ThinkingWritingIdeasCharacterNightFallWindStoresDrivingPursueComing BackGroceriesGrocery StoresFalling Asleep Author:Ann Patchett
“When I was growing up, I would listen to a different album almost every night. I would do the full album experience before I went to bed and that's how I would discover a lot of music. I would kind of go into another world with my headphones on.” WorldKindDifferentNightGrowing UpGrowingBedAlbumsEvery NightAnother WorldHeadphones Author:Mark Stoermer
“I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.” ThinkingWayDifferentMusic IsAlbumsOne WayDifferent ThingsPersonal Things Author:Mark Stoermer
“I was always an album guy, not a greatest hits kind of guy, not so much a radio guy. I'm not saying one is better than the other but... It was like reading a novel but shorter than that. You go into a world for an hour and you absorb yourself into it rather than just passively listening and flipping through this and that.” WorldKindGuyReadingHoursNovelListeningRadioAlbums Author:Mark Stoermer
“I think everything you do in your life affects you creatively. Especially in music, if you do another thing musical.” IfsThinkingMusical Author:Mark Stoermer
“I was lucky enough to just play music as a living and not have a nine-to-five job. I didn't have to pay the bills so I was able to experiment.” EnoughPlayAbleJobsPayFiveLuckyBillsNineExperiments Author:Mark Stoermer
“I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.” WritingStillsSongMy OwnGrowingReadyGrewStudiosEarly 20s Author:Mark Stoermer