Patrick deWitt quote — “I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the abi…”

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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.

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