Ann Patchett Quotes about Sleep

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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a

I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.

Ann Patchett

Beautiful, Book, Sleep

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

Ann Patchett

Beautiful, Mother, Sleep

Ann Patchett (2012). “Run”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

It is said the sesta is one of the only gifts the Europeans brought to South America, but I imagine the Brazilians could have figured out how to sleep in the afternoon without having to endure centuries of murder and enslavement.

Ann Patchett

Sleep, America, Afternoon

Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.173, A&C Black

Time is the most extraordinary gift for friendship. You'll get to eat your meals together and study together; in some cases you'll even sleep in the same room. You'll have time to waste on each other. You'll find out every single thing you have in common and still have time to catalogue all of your differences. Don't underestimate the vital necessity of friendship in your life because it is the thing that will sustain you later, when there will be considerably less time.

Ann Patchett

Sleep, Differences, Together

Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.161, A&C Black