Ann Patchett

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431 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 7 Jul

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ReThinking · The craft of storytelling with Ann Patchett · 7 Jul 2026 podcast

And that's really what she needed.

She just needed somebody to keep her on track.

I never knew that I wanted to be anything else.

I if you were interviewing me when I was seven, I would say I want to be a writer and I don't know what that's about.

But it's always been where I've landed.

I trace it to the fact that I didn't go to school very often.

There was a lot of upheaval in my family.

My parents had gotten divorced.

We had moved across country.

We left in November when I was in first grade.

And so I was very nominally going to school with some kids we were staying with.

And the idea was we were going to go back to Los Angeles.

It was just all very sloppy.

We moved a lot.

I really didn't learn how to read.

Until I was in the third grade.

Wow.

Because we just didn't really go to school regularly.

I couldn't read or write with any fluency, but I could tell a story.

And that became the thing that got me through.

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