“I think people become consumed with
selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it. Write because you love the art and the discipline, not
because you're looking to sell something.” – Ann Patchett
She
received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for
her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's
other novels include her well-known and award-winning The Magician's
Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. The Orange Prize is one of Great Britain’s
most prestigious writing awards and is given annually to a female author of any
nationality (she is American).
The
daughter of novelist Jeanne Ray and longtime L.A. police officer Frank Patchett, she was born on this
date in 1963 and was first published
in the prestigious Paris Review when she was just 20 years 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old. After working for Seventeen magazine for 9 years, she began her creative writing
career with the novel The Patron Saint of
Liars, which had modest sales but hit it big as a movie adaptation.
Also the editor of a short
story collection (for other aspiring writers), she opened her own bookstore in
her hometown of Nashville, Tenn., when other stores were closing down and
leaving few outlets for writers’ work.
In 2012 she was named by Time magazine as one of the "100 Most
Influential People in the World."
“I don't write for an audience,” Patchett said when asked that question. “I don't think whether my book will sell, (and) I definitely don't try selling it before I finish writing it.”
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