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Patrick deWitt Quotes

Canadian - Novelist | 1975 -

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

Me Detail Finding Go Starting Point

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

Art I Am People College Think Moved

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

People Want Engage Make Simply Clap

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 it.

Me Brothers Sisters Westerns Minimal

By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.

Time Feel Living Trapped Bar Left

I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

Plan You Go Write Right Pretty

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

Time Start Through Halfway Rough

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

Truth You Tell Read Westerns Hardly

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

Write Historical Instinct Setting

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.

Road Reading Thought Go Out Books

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

Love Yourself Someone You Back Meet

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

Friend Job School Lost Hollywood

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