Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected. Ann Patchett More Quotes by Ann Patchett More Quotes From Ann Patchett I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book. Ann Patchett persons stories book I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing. Ann Patchett made writing discovery Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world. Ann Patchett kindness running people When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot. Ann Patchett educational college school My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. Ann Patchett novel people thinking Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized. Ann Patchett dense Thank God Roxane Coss had not fallen in love with one of the Russians. She doubted they could make it up the stairs without stopping for a cigarette and telling at least one loud story that no one could understand. Ann Patchett stopping thank-god stories If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain. Ann Patchett complaining want quiet I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Ann Patchett praise want It was all in my head and now all I had to do was figure out a way to get it down on paper. Ann Patchett figures paper way You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go. Ann Patchett places-to-go sadness world She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room. Ann Patchett saving persons rooms The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months. Ann Patchett cutting light tree That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch. Ann Patchett shine-on confusion thinking 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. Ann Patchett priests giving looks Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree. Ann Patchett finding-yourself tree thinking Even though I didn't know I was applying for the job, I have somehow become the spokesperson for independent book stores. Ann Patchett independent jobs book If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go." Ann Patchett want looks years The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. Ann Patchett tennessee august hot I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write. Ann Patchett nashville writing thinking
