My 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 PatchettThere can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.
Ann PatchettYou canโt control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
Ann PatchettYou see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.
Ann Patchett