Kenneth Patchen - Writing Quotes

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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

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