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Patrick deWitt Quotes

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.

Patrick deWitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

Life Age Solitude Writing My Life

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

Amy Adams

People Hands I Can Talk Anything

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

Mike Rutherford

Start Thinking Project Next Finished

There are so many canceled games that people don't know about and so many stories people can't tell because they're restricted by this ridiculous culture of secrecy.

Jason Schreier

Culture People Know Ridiculous Games

People ask for autographs, and I wonder why before realising, 'Oh, that's right, I'm doing well in boxing.'

Joseph Parker

People Doing Wonder Boxing Why Ask

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jon Brion

You Place Dialogue Everything Used

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.

Donna Mills

Women Role Model Mail Through Role

One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.'

Brad Falchuk

Time Enough You Too Much Niche Show

Man should be ever better than he seems.

Aubrey de Vere

Man Better Seems Than He Should

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Phyllis Diller

Time Argument New Three Bank Get

Subsidize... or lend.

Susan George

Lend Subsidize

The U.S. might have diminished al-Qaeda's capabilities in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but it has not diminished the threat from radical Islamist terrorists as a whole.

Pete Hoekstra

Border Afghanistan Whole Radical

I'm as talented as they come. I would have success in any era.

Seth Rollins

Success Come Would Era Talented Any