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Ann Patchett

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American novelist and memoirist

Person · Open Library

Born
2 December 1963
Works
87

Top works

  • The Peanuts Papers
  • The Dutch House
  • What Now? : Written by Ann Patchett, 2008 Edition, Publisher
  • Tom Lake Intl/e
  • Bel ḳanto

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Listeners
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Quotes

  • In , talked about how she spent her childhood thinking that real life would start after the surgeries stopped.
  • If all fairy tales begin "Once upon a time," then all graduation speeches begin "When I was sitting where you are now." We may not always say it, at least not in those exact words, but it's what graduation speakers are thinking. We look out at the sea of you and think, Isn't there some mistake? I should still be sitting there. I was that young fifteen minutes ago, I was that beautiful and lost.
  • The years spent in the freelance trenches eventually paid off; I would go on to have some remarkable assignments. I've toured the great s of Italy, gone on a mock honeymoon in Hawaii, driven an across the , all on someone else's dime. Whenever people ask how they can get those same kinds of assignments, I recommend what worked for me: eight years writing freelance articles for .
  • I'm always writing essays—eight hundred words on owning a for a newspaper in London, my ten favorite books of the year for a magazine in Australia, an introduction for a newly reissued classic, maybe a little piece about dogs. Essays never filled my days, but they reminded me that I was still a writer when I wasn't writing a novel.

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