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Ann Patchett Quotes

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 2, 1963

Topics

People Writing Book Think Selling

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

Child People Me Growing Up Destiny

When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book.

Michael Connelly

Age Character Me Book Lawyer Play

I totally respect fraternities.

Respect Totally

I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually.

Character Feel Important Land Mean

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Robert Falcon Scott

Life Looks Sometimes Difficult Pack

When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.

Attitude Challenge Walk Doctor Tough

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Success Failure People Think Process

Just ask the local people for the best food. Don't rely on a guidebook.

Masaharu Morimoto

Food Best People Ask Just Rely

I do a lot of races for the cure for breast cancer.

Mary Ann Mobley

Cancer Cure Breast Cancer Lot Races

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

God Light Religion Me Energy Talk

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

History Culture Religion Way Social

Loving God is never separate from loving our brothers and sisters. It's always the same.

Clementa C. Pinckney

God Loving Never Same Always Our

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