Ann Patchett

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

I mean, heaven knows I can go for long periods of time without writing, although I think about writing all the time.

And that's

for me a very similar state.

I I fall asleep every night thinking about a novel, a story, an idea in my head, the story I tell myself.

What's that Joan Dideon quote?

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

And that is definitely true for me.

So yes, but also it's luck and privilege.

And if somebody said, you know what, it's over.

You're never gonna write another book, I would say

I've had such a great run and I've been so lucky.

I wouldn't die.

It's not air, but it's great.

So um years and years, decades ago, I used to teach in a summer program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

And I would teach with my friend Lucy Greeley and she taught nonfiction and I taught fiction.

And we shared a little apartment together.

And at night we would look at the homework that came in.

And my students were so much better than her students.

And I said, why is this?

Why are my students better?

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