Author: Patrick deWitt

Quotes

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

- Patrick deWitt

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.

- Patrick deWitt

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.

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

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

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

- Patrick deWitt

Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

- Patrick deWitt

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