Ann Patchett
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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And take what you've learned and put it into the next story and work on it and revise it and revise it and throw it away and go again to a new story.
The idea that I think so many people have is I'm gonna work on this story and polish it and polish it.
And when I'm finished, I'm gonna send it to the New Yorker.
And that's the end game.
The end game
is not publication.
The end game is becoming a better writer.
Well, it doesn't happen very often anymore, although it does happen.
The ability
To be honest with yourself, the ability to see your own work clearly, which if we're serious about writing, we should have.
You can read something and or I can read something of my own, and I know if it's any good or not.
And I often write things that are bad and I marvel in a sense, like, wow, I didn't know.
that I could be 62 years old and at this point in my career and still write something that bad.
But also bedrock to all of it is love.
I'm doing this because I love to do it, because it's who I am, because it's how I see the world and experience and figure things out.
I can think of a couple of great stories.
One, years and years ago, uh my friend Elizabeth Gilbert
gave me an essay that she had written.
And it was just the best thing I had ever read.
It was spectacular.
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