Dewitt Quotes

“I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. ”

“When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.”

“I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.”

“Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.”

“I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.”

“Preparation to success is hard work of daily practice with improvement.”

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

“As more good Knowledge you get as more quality life you can achieve.”

“The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world”