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
Ann Patchett quotes about
When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.
I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.
I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.
You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.
To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]
For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.
Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.