Ann Patchett Quotes

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

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• Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?

  

  C. V. Raman
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Singer
  • Heritage
  • Wales

• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Positive

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Truth
  • Age
  • Past

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Nice
  • Woman
  • Child

• People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Constitution
  • Go
  • Goes

• The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Care
  • Out

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Believe
  • Hard
  • I Believe

• Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Long
  • Sometimes
  • Blow

• Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Work
  • City

• Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you-whatever makes you most you.

  

  Elizabeth Chandler
  • Change
  • Relationship
  • Special

• I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • Writing
  • Sleep