Books Quote by Patrick deWitt Download Open image “I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.” — Patrick deWitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Hardly Read Tell Truth Westerns
“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.” — Gerald W. Haslam 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
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Westerns have probably affected me more than any one thing, Western-related material. I love Westerns. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to. — Roy Rogers Copy Share Image
I've been familiar with western fantasy novels since I was a boy. — Hidetaka Miyazaki Copy Share Image
I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that… — Bill Pullman Copy Share Image
I do love Westerns. But, in a way, traditional Westerns, for me, have been hard to love viscerally and personally. — Lisa Joy 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
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 think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
