Ann Patchett Quotes

The Idea I Pursue Is The One That Keeps Coming Back To Me. The Characters I Think About As I'm Falling Asleep At Night Or When I'm Driving To The Grocery Store Are The One's I Wind Up Writing About.

I'm Very Sentimental About Lobsters. The Last Lobster I Ate Was The Only Lobster I Cooked.

I Have Seven Step-siblings From My Mother's Second And Third Marriages. 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 Writing Process Has Changed Because It's Harder To Find Uninterrupted Time.

I Tend To Keep My Ideas In My Head. When I Write Something Down In A Notebook It's Never Centralized. There Are Too Many Notebooks Floating Around, But Maybe That's A Good Thing.

I Don't Believe In Fate, As In, Which I - As A Catholic, I Think, Sort Of Predestination. But I Certainly Believe In Chance.

You Should Not Have Assault Rifles In Your Home.

I Know That There Are People Out There Who Believe We Should Get Rid Of All Guns.

I Don't Want To Stand With Somebody's Praise.

I Always Used To Be An Inside Person, And Now I'm An Outside Person.

I Really Do Think That Our Subconscious Gets Corrupted With Fear, And Fear Is How News Media - All Media - Makes Us [watch] Long Enough To Get To The Tide Commercial. That's All It's About. Generating Fear So That We Can Buy The Proper Laundry Detergent.

Seeing Images Of Violence - It's Always About How Somebody's Going To Kill You.