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Ann Patchett

I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I go through long periods of time when I don’t write, and I’m fine.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I’ve been writing the same book my whole life – that you’re in one family, and all of a sudden, you’re in another family, and it’s not your choice, and you can’t get out.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn’t the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I don’t know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don’t know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I’m just such a Luddite, and I want to write books about Luddites.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I think I would probably have been a good mother.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

My favorite thing about Nashville is the parks.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

I think it’s brain chemistry. I’m a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that’s how it turns out.

– Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it’s really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it’s really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

– Ann Patchett

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