Ann Patchett
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431 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Ann Patchett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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at the bottom of the class, but I would probably still be in second grade were it not for the fact that I figured out that telling a story was a good skill set to have, and I became very loyal to the skill set.
Mm-hmm.
I wasn't a ham, I was a quiet kid.
But I could put together little poems, I could make rhymes.
I had a good sense of language, I had a good ear.
The ability to work.
The ability to keep showing up when you have sat in a chair all day long and come up with nothing to be willing to go back and do it the next day and the next day and the next day.
I feel so far away from
talent and muse and creativity and those words that seem so important when I was young.
And now I think it's the people who make it are the people who just keep showing up.
It's much, much more like learning to play the cello.
You're going to put in the hours a day of practice.
People
People don't tend to think about writing in terms of practice because we can all write.
We can all tell a story.
And so then if we sit down and we can't write, we can't get the story in our head onto the paper, we say we're blocked.
We're not blocked.
We just need to spend more time practicing.
Well, the willingness to work on a story, revise it.
Get a friend to read it, figure out how it can be better, revise it, do it again and again, and then when you get to a place where you think it's great, throw it away.
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