Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, State of Wonder, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 December 1963
CountryUnited States of America
You are always someones favorite unfolding story
No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do
It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.
It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.
She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.
Everyone knows everything eventually.
In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.
The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.
But we cannot unbraid the story of another person’s life and take out all the parts that don’t suit our purposes and put forth only the ones that do.
The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.
You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.
You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.