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I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

Ann Patchett
Book, Writing, Thinking

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, Two

I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.

Ann Patchett
Writing, Thinking, Nashville

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
Book, Writing, Want
Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.30, A&C Black

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

Ann Patchett
Wall, Writing, Quiet
Source: www.guernicamag.com

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Ann Patchett
Home, Writing, Tired
"Ann Patchett lets readers into her personal life in new collection of essays". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2013.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

Ann Patchett
Writing, Process, Changed
Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions.

Ann Patchett
Writing, Buttons, Hot
Source: www.guernicamag.com

I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

Ann Patchett
Notebook, Writing, Ideas
Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2016.

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Ann Patchett
Teenager, Writing, Two

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