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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

~Patrick Dewitt

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'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

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

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'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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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.

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

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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.

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I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and over. And while I'm no expert in these matters, this is proving to be true. My first book dealt with a not-that-pleasant degenerate type, and the One Question was, 'Is this an autobiographical story?'

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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.

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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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