Quotes by : Patrick deWitt

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors,....

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it.....

There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer.....

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit....

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head.....

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t....

I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very....

When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black....

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline....