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Ann Patchett Quotes

I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Technology World Stand Lose Know

I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has to pay the bills; keep artists happy; and cope with collectors (oy!), curators (ay-yi-yi), critics (woo-hoo!), and occasionally plumbers. That their fiscal life often hangs in the balance only adds to the energy.

Life Balance Happy Energy Feel You

When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.

Change Vision Time People Strategy

I've been in Glasgow since I was 18, on and off.

Off Been Since Glasgow On And Off

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Power Fool Country Vote Instrument

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Hippie Up Grew Essentially

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Reputation Say Understand Brilliant

I actually really enjoy work ethic.

Work Work Ethic Enjoy Actually Ethic

Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

God Truth Mirror Thought Hands Said

For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.

Dance Me Writing Puzzle Like Novel

Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you?

Love Time Job Do What You Love Doing

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

You Call Got Only IRS Like

I was opposed to World War II, and indeed on June 22, 1941 when Hitler invaded the Soviet Union I suddenly found myself the lone supporter of peace since everybody else had, because of their communist beliefs, shifted over to become supporters of the war.

Myself Peace War World Become Over

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