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 think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.
Ann PatchettBut these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew as there had ever been in gathering new information. He worked as hard at forgetting as he had ever worked to learn.
Ann PatchettI decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.
Ann Patchett