Quotes by : Ann Patchett

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a....

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the....

People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family....

I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and....

Never had he thought, never once, that such a woman existed, one who stood so close to God that God's....

Bad habits were all a matter of perspective, and as long as the present was viewed through the lens of....

Somebody's going to have to make the money to buy you all those books.""They're free," Franny said. "I....

He is fifteen and ten and five. He is an instant. He is flying back to her. He is hers again. She feels....

Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and....

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are....