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Top 500 Ann Patchett Quotes (2025 Update)
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Ann Patchett Quote: “He patted their heads like drums. He patted them with a beat.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It was an awful thing to never really have the chance to hold somebody until she was dead.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Most days now I have a headache and I worry that some tiny Amazonian animal is eating a hole through my cerebral cortex, and the only thing I want in the world, the only thing that would give meaning or sense to this existence, would be the chance to lay my head in your lap. You would put your hand in my hair, I know you would do that for me. Such is your bravery, such is my good fortune.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “In the summers they wandered out of the civilized world and into the early orphanage scenes of Oliver Twist.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Other CEOs were shown fly-fishing in Scottish rivers or piloting their own Learjets into Helsinki. Mr. Hosokawa was photographed at home in the leather chair he sat in when he listened, a Nansei EX-12 stereo system behind him.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You’re hardly even in the book.” Caroline laughed. “Maybe that’s what irritated me about it. Anyway, if I was going to sue I’d make it a class-action case, get the whole family involved.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “This will never be me. I took comfort in that.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The problem wasn’t mine, after all, it was hers. Celeste had her heart set on marrying a doctor.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Smoking was what we did at Choate in lieu of taking.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The early years he had spent building Nansei were like a hurricane in his memory, a huge, overbearing wind into which every loose thing was sucked.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand. If you don’t have the starch to stand up in class and admit what you don’t understand, then I don’t have the time to explain it to you. If you don’t have a policy against nonsense you can wind up with a dozen timid little rabbits lined up in the hall outside your office, all waiting to whisper the same imbecilic question in your ear.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Your guilt’s got nothing on my guilt,” Franny said. “Your guilt isn’t even in the ballpark.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You can learn more, and more quickly, from other people’s missteps than from their successes. If.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Our parents divorced when I was four. I have many memories from early childhood, and though there are plenty of scenes in which both of my parents are present, I was too young to understand that they were married. They simply existed in the same house to take care of us. The explanation of what marriage was, and that it was over, all came in a single afternoon.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “If Kumar had his way they would leave for Fiji every year just before Thanksgiving and not return until the New Year rang in and the decorations came down. They would swim with the fishes and lie on the beach eating papaya. On the years they were tired of Fiji they would go to Bali or Sydney or any sunny, sandy place whose name contained an equal number of consonants and vowels.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Every time I rolled the dice and moved the little iron forward, I thought how lucky I was: city, job, family, house.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don’t you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world’s greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “If he was right and God showed His face to the living then it was the surgeons to whom we should offer our novenas. Let us pray to the ones who keep our tired hearts pumping.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She felt a rush of that privacy that comes not from being alone but from being with the one person you are completely comfortable with.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The idea that she would have the opportunity to get over something thrilled her. The.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I don’t keep up the way I should. That’s the real drag about graduating. There’s never as much time to read when there’s no one there to make you do it.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Politicians never mentioned the details of life because of course the details that appealed to one person could repel another, so what you wound up with in the end were a long string of generalities, stirring platitudes that could not buy you supper.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Ripley’s announcement that I wasn’t going to be acting on one foot was my first glimpse into the future.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I grew up in the weather of his insanity, and yet the gifts he gave me are legion.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “To have a child and neglect her in favor of a novel would be cruel, but to simply skip the child in favor of a novel was to avoid harm altogether.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She was his wife in every way that mattered and that would save her.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “They were lined with the pelts of cast-off teddy bears. There was no vanity in winter.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “No one should have so much money that they could own a house like that and then not even bother to live in it.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “The root system changes the acidity level in the soil so that nothing much will grow here except for the trees and a little bit of grass. In a sense you could say the tree poisons the area it inhabits to make sure that nothing else will survive in its space and take the nutrients out of the soil or grow taller and block out the sunlight.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “He saw Mr. Otterson as the Willy Wonka of produce.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “You learn things about characters as you write them, so even if you think you know where things are heading, don’t set it in stone; you might change your mind. You have to let the action progress the way it must, not the way you want it to. You create an order for the universe and then you set that universe in motion.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Conversely, I am now capable of forgetting entire novels that I’ve read, and I’ve been influenced not at all by books I passionately love and would kill to be influenced by. Think about this before you let your child have an iPad.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “But now I know I was simply not cut out for life without her. I am living that life now and would not choose it.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She ate from my plates and wore my clothes and slept in my bed like Goldilocks while the benevolent, lumbering bear went south for the holidays.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived inside.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “If we could learn everything we needed to know about writing fiction by seeing it masterfully executed, we could just stay in bed and read Chekhov.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “For that withholding, the room sent up a grateful round of laughter. From a distance, I heard someone ask Maeve if she was a doctor as well. “No,” she said, holding up her fork speared with green beans. “I’m in vegetables.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “It smelled like a carnival wearing new clothes.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I’d never been in the position of getting my head around what I’d been given. I only understood what I’d lost.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “No such thing as a spoiled bunny. This is an animal who possesses a limitless capacity for affection.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I changed along with it. Anything I thought I couldn’t do turned out to be something I managed fine.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Even the stupidest ideas have resonance once they’ve happened.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She isn’t my mother.” He meant, of course, by simple mathematical extension, that his mother wasn’t Teddy’s mother either. Which meant that Bernadette, for whom he had lit a thousand candles, was the mother to whom his enormous love and devotion had no claim.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “Time applied equaled work completed. I.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “One day was just the same as the next and so he reasoned there would never be exactly a right time or a wrong time.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “We could sit here all night talking about cancer. I’m just telling you it’s unsettling. There are thousands of ways your body can go off the rails for no reason whatsoever and chances are you won’t know about any of it until it’s too late.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “She didn’t know how to hate her mother yet, but every time she left her father crying in the airport she came that much closer to figuring it out.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “I had to wait until the thought of not telling you was worse than the thought of telling you. Does.”
Ann Patchett Quote: “If you grow corn or trade in pigs or write poetry then you go to Iowa City.” “That’s why I haven’t been.”
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