At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly -… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I've got a publicist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt who's been working little miracles for me, but it's true the budgets aren't what… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it.… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case.… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“In the end I decided to hold onto the book, my thought being that his story was a unique one, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics,… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“Beware of the plygs of Colorado City, Arizona. They have no cups of coffee for the likes of you.” — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
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… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
