Kevin Patterson Quotes

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.
Kevin Patterson

Simple, Whole, Achieve

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.
Kevin Patterson

Courage, Fear, Through

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.
Kevin Patterson

Work, Time, Quiet

Medicine and writing are natural companions.
Kevin Patterson

Writing, Natural, Medicine

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Kevin Patterson

Lost, Small, Solitude

Storms are sex. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.
Kevin Patterson

Sex, Words, Exist

I like a certain grandeur to a landscape, which both the Arctic and coastal BC have. I like it to be at all times clear that people aren't the dominant fact of a particular geography.
Kevin Patterson

Fact, Times, Both

I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces.
Kevin Patterson

Change, Time, Social

Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
Kevin Patterson

Power, Eyes, Write

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: December 27, 1964

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