Kenneth Patchen Quotes about Writing

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

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

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

Kenneth Patchen

Dog, Writing, Night

1941 TheJournal of Albion Moonlight.

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

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

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

Kenneth Patchen Quotes about Writing

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