Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.
Ann PatchettI have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
Ann PatchettUpdike and Bellow and Roth were my three favorite writers when I was young and throughout my life.
Ann PatchettWell, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
Ann Patchett