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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Everything is from your life.
If you're writing science fiction about little green Martians with suction cup toes, you know, that's your cousin, that's your sister, that's your neighbor.
And to kind of come to peace with that, I've come to realize that I cannot control how people read my work.
And if people are gonna read it and think, oh well, that's very autobiographical, or clearly she's writing about herself.
I can't go around saying, no, no, that's not what I'm writing about.
No, no, that's not what this means.
It's just like I'm gonna write the best book I can write with the tools that I have.
And leave it.
And go on.
Okay, this is just me.
This is just, you know, the way I see society, but
I think that reading and the telling of stories is how we, as mammals, communicate.
This is this is what the human animal does.
We shape our experience into stories.
At the end of the day today, my husband will come home and he'll say, What did you do today?
And I will say, Oh, I did a podcast with a lead.
from Ted and we had a really long tech check and I had to get the camera set up just right and I was wearing a white shirt and I changed to a black shirt.
You know, I I will make it into a story of this experience.
And I will try to make it entertaining and I'll try to make it funny.
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