Famous Ann Patchett Quotes

  • If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads. – Ann Patchett

    If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.– Ann Patchett

  • If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. – Ann Patchett

    If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.– Ann Patchett

  • Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. – Ann Patchett

    Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.– Ann Patchett

  • Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world – Ann Patchett

    Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world– Ann Patchett

  • Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world– Ann Patchett

  • We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership. – Ann Patchett

    We shared ideas like sweaters, with easy exchange and lack of ownership.– Ann Patchett

  • Isn’t that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered? – Ann Patchett

    Isn’t that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?– Ann Patchett

  • Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. – Ann Patchett

    Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.– Ann Patchett

  • The sleep he went back to was never the one he left. – Ann Patchett

    The sleep he went back to was never the one he left.– Ann Patchett

  • Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa. – Ann Patchett

    Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.– Ann Patchett