Ann Patchett Quotes - Page 3

• You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Political

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• La Montaña Mágica me influyó mucho. Es un libro que me impactó mucho. Me encantó como forma para una novela: poner a un grupo de personas en un lugar hermoso, darles a todos tuberculosis, hacer que todos se queden en un saco de dormir de piel durante varios años y ver qué pasa.

  Ann Patchett

  Beautiful, Book, Sleep

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• Learn to write by writing

  Ann Patchett

  Escribir

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• 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

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• He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

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  Compass, Used, Needed

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.229, A&C Black

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• The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

  Ann Patchett

  Moving, Ideas, Voice

  Ann Patchett (2008). "¿Y ahora qué?", Harpercollins

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• There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

  Ann Patchett

  Loss, Way, Used

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.269, Bloomsbury Publishing

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

  Ann Patchett

  Art, Writing, Discipline

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• When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

  Ann Patchett

  Discarded, Divorced, Stills

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.

  Ann Patchett

  Three, Young

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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

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  Writing, Dots, Coming Back

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

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• It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

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  Done, Might, Brilliant

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• La idea que persigo es la que siempre vuelve a mí. Los personajes en los que pienso mientras me duermo por la noche o cuando voy en coche al supermercado son aquellos sobre los que acabo escribiendo.

  Ann Patchett

  Fall, Writing, Character

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

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• That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Mind, Way

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

  Ann Patchett

  Crush, Criticism, Goes On

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• 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.

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• When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

  Ann Patchett

  Stuff, Nonfiction, Best Work

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• I'm very comfortable writing.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Comfortable

  "Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

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• That's important to me, to recommend books.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Important

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

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  Stories, Facts, This Life

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• I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

  Ann Patchett

  Book, Stories, Persons

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

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  Feelings, Singing, Moved

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• 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"

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• There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.

  Ann Patchett

  Love, Kissing, Two

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• It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

  Ann Patchett

  Dream, Distance, Butterfly

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

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