139 Quotes by Patrick deWitt

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

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.

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.

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?

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

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.

I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.

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.