Patrick deWitt

Quotes by Patrick deWitt

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

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• 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.

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• Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

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

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• When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.

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• I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

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• If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.

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• Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

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• Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.

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• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

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• I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

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• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

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• Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

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