I kissed John Updike as he presented me with an award. It wasn't the best kiss as far as kisses go, but I hold the fact that I kissed John Updike, that he kissed me, very close to my heart. Ann Patchett More Quotes by Ann Patchett More Quotes From Ann Patchett You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen. Ann Patchett whole-life screens whole Everyone knows everything eventually. Ann Patchett knows That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all. Ann Patchett fighting moments way Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry. Ann Patchett tired nice men I love telling people what to read. It's my favorite thing in the world, to buy books and force books on people, take bad books away from people, give them better books. Ann Patchett giving book people Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right. Ann Patchett party long dull Learn to write by writing Ann Patchett writing You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no. Ann Patchett eight wind thinking People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog. Ann Patchett dog baby people I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important. Ann Patchett important trying thinking Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature. Ann Patchett loops tennessee persons 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. Ann Patchett writing book thinking No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth. Ann Patchett want-something telling-the-truth people Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom. Ann Patchett shots dangerous gun That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down. Ann Patchett mind writing way Everybody believes in chance. Ann Patchett chance believe I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance. Ann Patchett fate believe thinking I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight. Ann Patchett character people way I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked. Ann Patchett sentimental lasts lobster I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help I would be there for them. Ann Patchett sibling loyalty mother
