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Patrick deWitt Quotes

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

Patrick deWitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

Good Son Free Reading Landscape

If I could take you back in time to the fifties and walk you around to some of the places where I grew up, you'd be trying to get back in your time machine. It wasn't all sock hops - matter of fact, I never saw a sock hop.

Joe R. Lansdale

Time Walk Trying You Back Matter

'First Step 2 Forever' is a hardcover, multi-colored monstrosity that clocks in at 240 pages... half of which feature full-page pictures of the 16-year-old Bieber.

Andrew Shaffer

Step First Step Pictures First Half

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

John Millington Synge

Sister Lord Liver Her Give Guts

I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.

Jean Pigozzi

Suits Go Serious Never Office Wear

In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

Michael Finkel

Writing Literature Journalism Flow

So, I have the responsibility of making sure that HUD functions and runs well.

Alphonso Jackson

Responsibility Well Sure Making Runs

The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.

Rita Dove

Time Shadow Curious Think Sound

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

Robert Winston

Man Deep Aggression Modern Kinds

I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

Loudon Wainwright III

Music Myself Listening Think Blues

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it.

Jay Hernandez

Experience Football Religion Texas

My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs.

Johnny Ramone

Feel Classic Russia Rocket Would

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.

Douglas Brinkley

Experience Space Me Looking Earth