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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Thousands and thousands of pages I read throughout my youth.
Wow.
And I thought, oh, I am never doing that.
Again, it's a wiretap situation.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
That's why I think actually going to MFA programs can be really helpful because you can see the people in your class doing things wrong.
And you're like, well, that's a sinkhole that I don't want to walk into.
Right.
And you you can learn more quickly sometimes than you can if you're just watching everybody do everything perfectly.
Well, think about it.
You've got a picnic and in that picnic a a terrible tornado blows up and sweeps half the family away and the rest of them are up in a tree and you know, there's action.
There's action generated by disaster.
But if you're having a picnic of kind people who are talking in a civil way and enjoying their lunch, then you have to really think about what is the tension in the scene.
Yeah.
And what are these people actually saying to one another and how can I move the story along?
One of the things that I've thought about so much in the last just couple of years is
complaining anger bitterness frustration it's low hanging fruit
And just to walk in and say, oh, it's it's terrible.
It's just never, never been worse.
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