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 PatchettUpdike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
Ann PatchettComing back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected.
Ann PatchettI will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.
Ann PatchettNever be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
Ann Patchett