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    Ann Patchett

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    Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something. ↗


    — Ann Patchett

    #because #discipline #looking #love #sell

    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. ↗


    — Ann Patchett

    #living #loop #nature #oblivious #out

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


    — Ann Patchett

    #book #consumed #i #i think #need

    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. ↗


    — Ann Patchett

    #before #book #finish #i #sell

    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. ↗


    — Ann Patchett

    #could #grocery #hours #i #i can

    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. ↗


    — Ann Patchett

    #baby #bad #bad time #dog #gave






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    Bernard Academy a private non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. Awards and honors
    Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize (Taft)
    PEN/Faulkner Award (Bel Canto)
    Orange Prize (Bel Canto)
    BookSense Book of the Year (Bel Canto)
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (Bel Canto)
    2011: Wellcome Trust Book Prize shortlist (State of Wonder)


    Bibliography


    Novels
    The Patron Saint of Liars (1992)
    Taft (1994)
    The Magician's Assistant (1997)
    Bel Canto (2001)
    Run (2007)
    State of Wonder (2011)


    Nonfiction
    Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (2004)
    What now? (2008)
    The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life (2011). Her third novel The Magician’s Assistant was released in 1997.

    She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto.

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