Patrick deWitt Quotes

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

Patrick deWitt

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• Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Literature
  • Understand
  • Gold

• The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Nothing

• You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • You
  • Understand
  • Credit

• I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Desire
  • Religious
  • Married

• People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Death
  • Own

• I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Understand
  • Find
  • Start

• I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Movie
  • Crazy
  • Like

• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Desire
  • Alone
  • Moment

• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Good
  • Long
  • Write

• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Desire
  • Natural

• I write to escape; to escape poverty.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Poverty
  • Write
  • Escape

• I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Understand
  • Blues

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Live
  • Death
  • Fear

• Briefly, then, life, to the pessimist, is a motiveless desire, a constant pain and continued struggle, followed by death, and so on, in secula seculorum, until the planet’s crust crumbles to dust.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Desire
  • Pain
  • Dust

• Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • Face
  • Incredible
  • Handsome

• When I sing a set, people will say, 'I love 'Mayday.' People just love 'Mayday' so much. I love it too.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Love
  • Will

• I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

  

  Armand Deutsch
  • Bored

• I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Death
  • Desire
  • Write