Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.
Ann PatchettIt was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.
Ann PatchettIt was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.
Ann PatchettThe hardest piece of nonfiction I ever wrote isn't anywhere close to the easiest piece of fiction I never wrote.
Ann Patchett