Ann Patchett Want Quotations

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.