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Patrick deWitt Quotes

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

Giving Credit Skin More Him Get

Hard science fiction, which is what I write, often is rightly criticized for having either negligible or unbelievable characterization, but the science I've actually studied most post-secondarily is psychology, and characterization is the art of dramatizing psychological principles.

Robert J. Sawyer

Science Art Principles Write Hard

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Mother Age Sad Brother Me Window

In the late '90s, the magazine formerly known as 'The Wizard' came after me strong and hard. I was the brunt of jokes for an entire staff of angry fanboys; as much as can be poured on was poured on. But I kept focus, as anyone in that situation should.

Focus Angry Me Strong Situation

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn't because it only makes them mad.

Robert T. Bakker

Win You Mad Because Only Makes

I don't eat anything on an airplane.

Masaharu Morimoto

Airplane Eat Anything

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it better.

Work Better Creation Nothing Try Up

I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.

Time Think Luxury More Realize Get

I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.

I Am Movies Annoying Being Sensitive

You cannot cover a ruin with a page of 'Pravda.'

You Page Ruin Cannot Cover

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

Christine Quinn

Men Think Little Interest Would How

It is the creature that stands at the center of horror movies, not those who have made it their business to bring the beast down. We're all the same.

Business Down Beast Movies Horror

I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.

Run Finish Line Finish Line Stay

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