294 Quotes by Ann Patchett

My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them.

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out.

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

I don't really cry.

In my experience, surgeons tend to need boatloads of attention.

I'm just such a Luddite, and I want to write books about Luddites.

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.