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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because of her talent.
And she completely had me.
And that's one of the great things about owning a bookstore or listening to a bookseller who can say to you, Yeah, I understand.
I understand.
I didn't want to read it either, but I did.
And and it's incredible.
Do something.
Do something that you love.
And I think that yes, of course, it is important to fight against what you hate.
And yet it is
More important to fight for something that you love.
To just say, I'm not going to solve the problems of the world.
But I can look in my own corner at something that's meaningful to me and do it.
So if what I am doing is working to make sure that booksellers who I will never meet.
have a little bit of extra money to cover the gap in the crisis, I can do that.
I can make sure that children in my community who need a free book and who need a visit from an author so that they can know that they can be authors.
that can do that.
You you don't have to take on something enormous or you don't have to invent it yourself.
Yeah.
Just
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