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Patrick deWitt Quotes

Canadian - Novelist | 1975 -

The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

Way Knowing Reason Portland Going

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

Day Writing Every Day Always Turn

'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

More Because Prize Brothers Readers

I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.

Reading Become Over Years Plot

'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

Men Two Dialogue Out Little Started

A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

View Say More Anything Happens Than

I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

People Book Story You Be True True

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 my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

Me Ideas Small Soup Doing Shoe

Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

Me Bar Working Idea Horrific

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

Trying Write Outside Books Failing

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

Influences Read Westerns Cinematic

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Life Age Solitude Writing My Life

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