Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.
Ann PatchettI always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.
Ann PatchettUpdike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
Ann PatchettIf what we want to do is promote reading and writing and publishing and making sure this is a business that keeps going - because it is a business! It's not just an art - then we have to take responsibility. I get sort of crazy and frothy when I think about this. It really matters.
Ann Patchett