Ann Patchett
speaker
1,333 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6 Sep
Ann Patchett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.
Appearances
You know what Lita's going to say.
You know what Daphne's going to say.
I understand who they are.
And then I drop them into
a particular moment and then I can
type.
And then as far as getting the language right or the sentences,
I always say this is what I do for a living.
So I had a whole lifetime of working on this, how to listen and and knowing the difference between
Speech and dialogue.
When I was young, I once dated a guy who worked in the district attorney's office and
He would have wiretaps, and we would read wire taps.
for hours and hours.
And boy, nothing taught me more about how to write dialogue than to read six hundred pages of wiretaps of a phone.
It's
Unbelievably boring what people say to one another and the ability to pick out a single sentence or half sentence and weave them together so that you are encompassing.
Big ranging ideas in a few sentences.
That's dialogue.
You know, it's again going back to just knowing them.
And I could have picked different moments that would have been emblematic.
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