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Ann Patchett Quotes
I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, its like writing a grocery list. - Ann Patchett Quotes
I dont write for an audience, I dont think whether my book will sell, I dont sell it before I finish writing it. - Ann Patchett Quotes
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. - Ann Patchett Quotes
I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. Its a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens. - Ann Patchett Quotes
Part of it is living in Tennessee. Im so out of the loop. And as a person, Im out of the loop. Im oblivious by nature. - Ann Patchett Quotes
People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didnt want a baby, and I still dont. I wanted a dog. - Ann Patchett Quotes
Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, its really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, its really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on. - Ann Patchett Quotes
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. - Ann Patchett Quotes
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because youre looking to sell something. - Ann Patchett Quotes
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. - Ann Patchett Quotes
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