294 Quotes by Ann Patchett

Even though I didn’t know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores.

Maybe the private life wasn’t forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.

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.

Sometimes if there’s a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

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.

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It’s a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

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.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story.

I think someone gets stitches in all my novels.