Ann Patchett
speaker
431 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
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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And I said, where are you going to publish this?
And she said, no, no, no.
I wrote this for myself.
This is private.
And I'm showing it to you.
I'm not showing this to anybody else.
I said, no, no, no, this is the this is astonishing.
You have to.
She said, no, this is a private thing.
This is a true private story, and I'm not going to publish it.
But I needed to write it because that's what I do.
That was a huge lesson for me.
So just going into something and saying, I am writing this for the sake of writing it always.
And when I'm finished writing it, then I'll decide.
where it may or may not go in the world.
And that is the place that you have to come.
At writing from.
I do this because I love it.
I play the cello, not because I'm going to be yo-yo ma in Cardi Hall, but because I can't imagine a whole day without playing the cello.
That's how I feel o yeah.
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