As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don’t want to be taught lessons, and I don’t want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish… That’s the worst model I’ve heard of in my life. It’s just idiotic. Why wouldn’t you just wait for the good ones? Patrick deWitt Read Quote
Especially if you’re endeavouring daily to write your own books, you read with a degree of – well, it’s hard to forget you’re a writer when you’re reading. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It’s a perilous thing. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I wouldn’t want to write a biography of anyone. I’d feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject’s life justice. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I don’t consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
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. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
I felt like love has been underrepresented – unironic love, just actually really falling in love. Patrick deWitt Read Quote
