Patrick deWitt Quotes

Canada, Novelist
March 6, 1975

Patrick deWitt (born 1975) is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter. He was born on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and later lived in California and Washington state. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Also known as Writer, Screenwriter

Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.

Patrick deWitt
- Work
- Family
- Death
Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.

Patrick deWitt
- Work
- Energy
- Me

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

Patrick deWitt
- School
- Job
- Lost
I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth.

Patrick deWitt
- Truth
- You
- Tell
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
- Life
- Writing
- Age