Ann Patchett Mean Quotations

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings. Following complex story lines stretches our brains beyond the 140 characters of sound-bite thinking, and staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.