Quotes Ann Patchett

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it ...

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book...

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they...

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book tha...

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. A...

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn'...

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the sa...

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous...

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not becau...

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and...