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 PatchettWhy is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?
Ann PatchettMy novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are. No matter how hard I try to do otherwise, the books always wind up being "a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society."
Ann Patchett