Ann Patchett Thoughts

You can’t 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.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Everyone knows everything eventually.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.