Writing Quotes by Kenneth Patchen

Kenneth Patchen

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

Dog

Night

Writing

Kenneth Patchen

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.

Giving

Thinking

Writing

Kenneth Patchen

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.

Book

Hate

Writing

Kenneth Patchen

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.

Done

Thinking

Writing

Kenneth Patchen

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.

Mind

Stupid

Writing

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Writing Quotes by Kenneth Patchen

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

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.

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.

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