Patrick DeWitt Quotes
Top 93 wise famous quotes and sayings by Patrick DeWitt
Patrick DeWitt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.
I don't suppose I have a choice.'
'As with so many things in a life, brother, I don't suppose you do.
'As with so many things in a life, brother, I don't suppose you do.
Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior." "Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
I sighed. 'It doesn't matter what we do. Money comes and goes.' I shook my head. 'It doesn't matter and you know it doesn't.
I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
There is nothing typical about my profession.' Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. 'I don't want to talk about it any longer.
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
There is a feeling here, which if it gets you, will envenom your very center. It is a madness of possibilities.
I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
He blinks and says that there are two types of people: Those who want to cry, and those who are crying already and want to stop.
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
That is to say, nine dead beavers in a line on the sand. There was something decorative about this, but also ominous or forbidding.
Just your everyday grouping of civilized gentlemen, sitting in a round robin to discuss the events of the day with quivering erections.
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
Do you know how much a hundred dollars is?' he asked. I said that I did not and he answered, 'It is a hundred dollars.
I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
I thought, Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world, after all. As
Feeling my middle section, which is and always has been bountiful, I said I did not think I would fit in the small
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
You always bring God into arguments you know you're losing, for the liar is lonely, and welcomes all manner of company.
I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.
She wasn't precisely sure what she was walking toward but she wouldn't have turned around for the world.
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.
I almost vomited in the boot! I was just about to vomit in the boot! Can you imagine how upset I would have been?