Ann Patchett Quotes About Writing

• Escribir es un trabajo, un talento, pero también es el lugar que ocupa tu cabeza. Es el amigo imaginario con el que tomas el té por la tarde.

  Ann Patchett

  Empleo, Escritura, Té

  Ann Patchett (2004). "Verdad y belleza: Una amistad"

• Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Dots, Coming Back

  Ann Patchett (2009). “What Now?”, p.3, Harper Collins

• I will write my way into another life.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Way, Another Life

  Ann Patchett (2004). "Verdad y belleza: Una amistad"

• Creo que, más que cualquier otra cosa, esta pena de tener que enfrentarnos constantemente a nuestras propias insuficiencias es lo que impide a la gente ser escritores. El perdón, por tanto, es clave. No puedo escribir el libro que quiero escribir, pero puedo escribir y escribiré el libro que soy capaz de escribir. Me perdonaré una y otra vez a lo largo de mi vida.

  Ann Patchett

  Duelo, Creer, Libro

• Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Writing, Discipline

• Sólo unos pocos estaremos dispuestos a rompernos el corazón cambiando la belleza viva de la imaginación por la cruda decepción de las palabras.

  Ann Patchett

  Decepción, Escritura, Corazón

  Ann Patchett (2013). "Esta es la historia de un matrimonio feliz", p.27, Harper Collins.

• If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really, even if it takes some digging, ideas are out there. Just open your eyes and look at the world. Writing the ideas down, it turns out, is the real trick.

  Ann Patchett

  Real, Writing, Eye

• Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, World, Awful

  Ann Patchett (2013). "Esta es la historia de un matrimonio feliz", p.60, A&C Black.

• I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Emotional, Two

• ¿Quieres hacer esto? Siéntate y hazlo. ¿No estás escribiendo? Sigue sentado. ¿No te sientes bien? Sigue ahí sentado. Piensa que eres un monje que recorre el camino hacia la iluminación. Piensa en ti mismo como un estudiante de bachillerato que quiere ser neurocirujano. ¿Es posible? Sí. ¿Hay algún atajo? No he encontrado ninguno. Escribir es un negocio miserable y horrible. Sigue con ello. Es mejor que nada en el mundo.

  Ann Patchett

  Senior, Escuela, Escritura

  Ann Patchett (2013). "Esta es la historia de un matrimonio feliz", p.60, A&C Black.

• Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

  Ann Patchett

  Inspiration, Writing, Magic

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.28, A&C Black

• People always say, "Can writing be taught?" I always think, I can teach you how to write a better sentence, how to do dialogue, how to do character, but I can't teach you how to be a decent person, and I can't teach you how to have something to say.

  Ann Patchett

  Escritura, Carácter, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Learn to write by writing

  Ann Patchett

  Escribir

• I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

  Ann Patchett

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

• Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Ambition, Dull Life

  Ann Patchett (2004). "Verdad y belleza: Una amistad"

• 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

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

• I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Thoughtful, Thinking

• Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Buttons, Hot

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

  Ann Patchett

  Teenager, Writing, Two

• I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

  Ann Patchett

  Libro, Escritura, Personaje

  Entrevista con Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. 16 de agosto de 2016.

• I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

  Ann Patchett

  Wall, Writing, Quiet

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

  Ann Patchett

  Libro, Escribir, Querer

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.30, A&C Black

• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Sleep, Two

• My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Process, Changed

  Entrevista con Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. 16 de agosto de 2016.

• No puedes ser una buena persona cuando escribes y una mala persona con tu marido o una mala amiga.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Bad Friend

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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