Ann Patchett
Sign in to saveAmerican 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 · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 161
- Total plays
- 1,891
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,971x
- Multiplex Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/Cas Systems
· 2013 · cited 14,153x
- 2015 American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Adult Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: The American Thyroid Association Guidelines Task Force on Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2016 · cited 12,606x
- Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data
· 1999 · cited 11,286x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
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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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