Updike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
Ann Patchett[I remember going] to a hotel gym at six o'clock in the morning, and the television was on, and it's some drama in which two men have clearly kidnapped a woman. They're interrogating her, and they put a plastic bag over her head. They're suffocating her, and I'm thinking, It's six o'clock in the morning! Why does anybody need to see this? How can I find the off switch?
Ann PatchettI don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.
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 Patchett