'The Sisters Brothers' started out as a little bit of dialogue between these two men who became Eli and Charlie Sisters.

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• Patrick deWitt:

  A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the

• Patrick deWitt:

  The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project.

• Patrick deWitt:

  If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited

• Patrick deWitt:

  I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over an

• Patrick deWitt:

  I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There

• Patrick deWitt:

  Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

• Patrick deWitt:

  I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.

• Patrick deWitt:

  I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.

• Patrick deWitt:

  I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be.

• Patrick deWitt:

  At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this e