What did Ann Patchett mean by: Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves. - Ann Patchett Author · USA Copy
+ You can’t be a good person when you’re writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Husband, Writing, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Best Work, Nonfiction, Stuff, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you’re looking to sell something. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Art, Discipline, Writing, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ It’s easier to love a woman when you can’t understand a word she’s saying. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Easier, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Dangerous, Gun, Shots, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Book, Writing, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn’t make a scene. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Ann Patchett, Problem, Scene, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
+ It’s always better to have too much to read than not enough. Feraz Zeid, August 29, 2023December 24, 2023, Ann Patchett, Enough, 0 - Ann Patchett Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
