Phrase by 'Ann Patchett'

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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.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Me , People , Beautiful , Mountain


Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Nature , Person , Living , Out


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.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Life , Writing , My Life , Wife


The '70s were a different time as far as parenting was concerned. People left their kids in the car with the windows cracked while they went to the grocery store.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  People , Time , Car , Parenting


I've never had a terrible job. I've been a cook, waitress, bookseller, teacher, freelance writer. I know what the bad jobs are, and I haven't done them.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Know , Bad , Teacher , Job


You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  You , Me , Thinking , Walk


Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  You , Me , Great , Way


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

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Down , Amazing , Place , Door


Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Love , You , Art , Discipline


I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart.

Author: Ann Patchett - American Author
  Me , Heart , Best , Kiss


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