Patchett was birthed in Los Angeles, California. She relocated to Nashville, Tennessee when she was five and lives there still.
She examined at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville and after that at Sarah Lawrence College. Later on she examined at the Iowa Writers' Workshop as well as the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, it was below she created her initial novel, The Patron Saint of Liars.
The very first time Patchett obtained something released remained in the publication The Paris Review, that was currently on her very first college year.
In 9 years Patchett benefited Seventeen magazine. She composed mostly factual articles. The magazine released just about twenty percent of the articles she wrote.
In 1992 she provided The Patron Saint of Liars. The unique became a flick with the same title in 1998.
She is understood for his relationship with author Lucy Grealy and also has actually created a narrative concerning their connection, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. This is her initial non-fiction publication.
Patchett has composed for many publications, consisting of The New York Times, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle, GQ, Gourmet as well as Vogue. She is the editor of the 2006 quantity of the compilation series The Best American Short Stories.
Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Ann.
"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on"
"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"
"Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something"
"People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog"
"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"
"I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it"
"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"
"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no"
"Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature"
"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"
