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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. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

and that Eli, is how you got your freckles — Patrick DeWitt

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it. — Patrick DeWitt

I don't suppose I have a choice.'
'As with so many things in a life, brother, I don't suppose you do. — Patrick DeWitt

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly. — Patrick DeWitt

Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior." "Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir. — Patrick DeWitt

Beware of the plygs of Colorado City, Arizona. They have no cups of coffee for the likes of you. — Patrick DeWitt

Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me. — Patrick DeWitt

I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

Things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon. — Patrick DeWitt

All you will get from me is death. — Patrick DeWitt

I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved? — Patrick DeWitt

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic. — Patrick DeWitt

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there. — Patrick DeWitt

I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. — Patrick DeWitt

I find the constant upkeep of the body woefully fatiguing, don't you? — Patrick DeWitt

Work will drive you crazy if you let it. — Patrick DeWitt

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

You will know it, Charlie, if my burden becomes unbearable. You will know it and so will he. — Patrick DeWitt

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing. — Patrick DeWitt

I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession. — Patrick DeWitt

There is a feeling here, which if it gets you, will envenom your very center. It is a madness of possibilities. — Patrick DeWitt

I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

Hurried business is bad business. — Patrick DeWitt

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter. — Patrick DeWitt

When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard — Patrick DeWitt

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself. — Patrick DeWitt

I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

That is to say, nine dead beavers in a line on the sand. There was something decorative about this, but also ominous or forbidding. — Patrick DeWitt

Just your everyday grouping of civilized gentlemen, sitting in a round robin to discuss the events of the day with quivering erections. — Patrick DeWitt

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick DeWitt

I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for. — Patrick DeWitt

It is a glory and a torment. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

I felt a premonitory concern they would never revisit it. — Patrick DeWitt

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do. — Patrick DeWitt

when I see you, I feel the same. It is when I am away that I lose myself. — Patrick DeWitt

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there. — Patrick DeWitt

It would seem to me that the solitude of working in the wilds is not healthy for a man. — Patrick DeWitt

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters. — Patrick DeWitt

He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good. — Patrick DeWitt

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. — Patrick DeWitt

Why were you feeling low?' 'Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

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 — Patrick DeWitt

Feeling my middle section, which is and always has been bountiful, I said I did not think I would fit in the small — Patrick DeWitt

His heart was a church of his own choosing,
and the lights came through
the colourful windows. — Patrick DeWitt

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth. — Patrick DeWitt

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing. — Patrick DeWitt

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick DeWitt

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project. — Patrick DeWitt

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist. — Patrick DeWitt

All I know, boy, is that life is, on occasion, entirely too vast for my tastes. — Patrick DeWitt

It is true, I thought. I am living a life. — Patrick DeWitt

I'm done talking about your horse, Eli.' 'If you think it will not come up again, you are mistaken. — Patrick DeWitt

He makes good time for a hysterical man on foot. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. — Patrick DeWitt

Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work. — Patrick DeWitt

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble. — Patrick DeWitt

This marked the end of our toothbrush conversation. — Patrick DeWitt

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be. — Patrick DeWitt

You always bring God into arguments you know you're losing, for the liar is lonely, and welcomes all manner of company. — Patrick DeWitt

He wandered here and there over rolling hills.
He never saw the ocean but
dreamed of it often enough. — Patrick DeWitt

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. — Patrick DeWitt

'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers. — Patrick DeWitt

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. — Patrick DeWitt

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick DeWitt

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness. — Patrick DeWitt

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this. — Patrick DeWitt

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed. — Patrick DeWitt

She wasn't precisely sure what she was walking toward but she wouldn't have turned around for the world. — Patrick DeWitt

Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it. — Patrick DeWitt

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them. — Patrick DeWitt

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it. — Patrick DeWitt

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead. — Patrick DeWitt

I almost vomited in the boot! I was just about to vomit in the boot! Can you imagine how upset I would have been? — Patrick DeWitt

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently. — Patrick DeWitt

I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong. — Patrick DeWitt

It's healthy to have interests besides books. — Patrick DeWitt