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Ann Patchett Quotes

There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss Picture Quote #1

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don’t know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it’s not. It’s a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it Picture Quote #1

Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all Picture Quote #1

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. 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 Picture Quote #1

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world Picture Quote #1

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself Picture Quote #1

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It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out Picture Quote #1

You can’t always trust what you think, what you know... but you can always trust your nature Picture Quote #1

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn’t complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do Picture Quote #1

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living Picture Quote #1

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again Picture Quote #1

Sometimes if there’s a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself Picture Quote #1

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You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go Picture Quote #1

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it’s like writing a grocery list Picture Quote #1

I don’t write for an audience, I don’t think whether my book will sell, I don’t sell it before I finish writing it Picture Quote #1

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn’t want a baby, and I still don’t. I wanted a dog Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss (Ann Patchett Quotes) Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don’t know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it’s not. It’s a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it (Ann Patchett Quotes) Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all (Ann Patchett Quotes) For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. 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) Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world (Ann Patchett Quotes) I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself (Ann Patchett Quotes) It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out (Ann Patchett Quotes) You can’t always trust what you think, what you know... but you can always trust your nature (Ann Patchett Quotes) No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn’t complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do (Ann Patchett Quotes) The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living (Ann Patchett Quotes) I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again (Ann Patchett Quotes) Sometimes if there’s a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself (Ann Patchett Quotes) You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go (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, it’s like writing a grocery list (Ann Patchett Quotes) I don’t write for an audience, I don’t think whether my book will sell, I don’t sell it before I finish writing it (Ann Patchett Quotes) People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn’t want a baby, and I still don’t. I wanted a dog (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)

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