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Ann Patchett Quotes
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Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words (Ann Patchett Quotes)
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man (Ann Patchett Quotes)
No one tells the truth to people they don’t actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth (Ann Patchett Quotes)
There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it (Ann Patchett Quotes)
He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it (Ann Patchett Quotes)
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned (Ann Patchett Quotes)
If you’ve had good gin on a hot day in Southern California with the people you love, you forget Nebraska. The two things cannot coexist. The stronger, better of the two wins (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one’s partner on both the left and the right (Ann Patchett Quotes)
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do (Ann Patchett Quotes)
If someone loves you for what you can do then it’s flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them (Ann Patchett Quotes)
It’s easier to love a woman when you can’t understand a word she’s saying (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft (Ann Patchett Quotes)
I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? (Ann Patchett Quotes)
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Even though I didn’t know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree (Ann Patchett Quotes)
No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl (Ann Patchett Quotes)
When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads (Ann Patchett Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn’t have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn’t that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write? (Ann Patchett Quotes)
The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive (Ann Patchett Quotes)
He doesn’t know to want for more because nothing in his life has been as much as this... on that night he thinks that no one has ever had so much and only later will he know he should have asked for more (Ann Patchett Quotes)
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we’ve never met, living lives we couldn’t possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character’s skin (Ann Patchett Quotes)
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 (Ann Patchett Quotes)