Books Quote by Patrick deWitt

I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

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

— Patrick deWitt

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

— Sergio Aragones

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

— Patrick deWitt

It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.

— Sam Elliott

I didn't read Western novels much until I was in my twenties, but I had a diet of them on film and TV, as…

— Joe R. Lansdale

Most writers' view of the New West is either phony - obsessed with the same tired mythology - or it's obsessed with anti-mythology, ...…

— Walter Kirn

The reason I wouldn't dare to write a Western is simply because that seems to be so much a part of American culture. Maybe…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies…

— Elizabeth Crook

It was quite frightening to be asked to write the music of a Western because there are so many things that you can refer…

— Alexandre Desplat

The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns.

— Joe R. Lansdale

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

— Alice Hoffman