Top 77 Quotes by Patrick deWitt

I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.

I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

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.

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.

Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.

I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.

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.