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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
- Patrick deWitt
#About
#Death
#Desire
#Understand
#Write
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
- Patrick deWitt
#Care
#Hard
#I Am
#Me
#Sex
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
#Energy
#Follow
#Living
#Me
#Work
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
- Patrick deWitt
#Family
#Find
#Listening
#Myself
#Place
I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
- Patrick deWitt
#Ahead
#Moving
#Myself
#People
#Radio
When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
- Patrick deWitt
#Black
#Design
#Difference
#Know
#Old
I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
- Patrick deWitt
#Back
#Doing
#Nothing
#Time
#Way
All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - constantly doubting ourselves, worrying, wondering if we've made a mistake. Could we have done better? Are we good people? Are we bad people?
- Patrick deWitt
#Bad
#Better
#Good People
#Good
#Mistake
Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
- Patrick deWitt
#Dramatic
#Know
#More
#Work
#Writing
My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
- Patrick deWitt
#Historical
#Instinct
#Setting
#Write
I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
- Patrick deWitt
#Clap
#Make
#People
#Simply
#Want
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
#Body
#Death
#Family
#Me
#Work
If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
- Patrick deWitt
#Done
#Doubt
#Riddled
#Something
#Wrong
Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
- Patrick deWitt
#Admire
#Done
#Liar
#Lie
#Wonderful
I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
- Patrick deWitt
#Good
#Happiness
#Myself
#True Happiness
Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.
- Patrick deWitt
#Independence
#Looking Back
#New
#Time
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