294 Quotes by Ann Patchett

Fiction is always really a labor.

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

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.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

I will write my way into another life.