“I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited...” — Patrick deWitt 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.”

“The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.”

“I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.”

“For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.”

“I think I've had 16 books that purport to be a biography of me. I've never cooperated with someone.”

“Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.”