Patrick deWitt

“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and…

— Patrick deWitt

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…

— Patrick deWitt

“Beware of the plygs of Colorado City, Arizona. They have no cups of coffee for the likes of you.”

— Patrick deWitt

“When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard”

— Patrick deWitt

The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed…

— Patrick deWitt

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for…

— Patrick deWitt

I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe…

— 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

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

— 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…

— Patrick deWitt

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

— 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…

— 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

“You are afraid of hell. But that’s all religion is, really. Fear of a place we’d rather not be, and where there’s…

— Patrick deWitt

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

“Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven’t the sense to level a cold eye at just what…

— Patrick deWitt

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

One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something…

— Patrick deWitt

“He stood there weeping and watching us go, while behind him Lucky Paul entered and collapsed the prospector's tent, and I thought,…

— 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

All you will get from me is death.

— 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'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I…

— Patrick deWitt

We rode along in silence, thinking our private thoughts. Charlie and I had an unspoken agreement not to throw ourselves into speedy…

— Patrick deWitt

“I almost vomited in the boot! I was just about to vomit in the boot! Can you imagine how upset I would…

— Patrick deWitt