I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.
Ann PatchettI used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.
Ann PatchettOur 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