Kenneth Patchen Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Dog, Writing, Night

  1941 TheJournal of Albion Moonlight.

• I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

• I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Hate, Book, Writing

• Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else: and you've just done it.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Writing, Thinking, Done

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

• What is a 'thing'? All is movement, a flowing. How stupid it is to speak of the 'mind'. There is a body; there is a mind: they are mixed up together. Shakespeare with a hole in his sock will not write the sonnet of a Shakespeare with socks intact.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Stupid, Writing, Mind

  Kenneth Patchen (1961). “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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