Top 20 Helen DeWitt Quotes (2024 Update)

Helen DeWitt Quote: “You have to deal with people the way they are, not the way you’d like them to be.”

1. “You have to deal with people the way they are, not the way you’d like them to be.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “The master swordsman isn’t interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.”

2. “The master swordsman isn’t interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can’t help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.”

3. “The writer who is literally an addict, the writer who can’t help himself, the writer who HAS to write, can never be anything but an amateur, because the industry requires the professional to put writing on hold not just for a day or two, or a week, but for years.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “I wish you wouldn’t say the first thing that comes into your head, Ludo. There is an obvious difference between someone who works within the technical limitations of his time which are beyond his control and someone who accepts without thinking limitations which are entirely within his own power to set aside.”

4. “I wish you wouldn’t say the first thing that comes into your head, Ludo. There is an obvious difference between someone who works within the technical limitations of his time which are beyond his control and someone who accepts without thinking limitations which are entirely within his own power to set aside.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.”

5. “There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book...”

6. “There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book...”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “He was a linguist, and therefore he had pushed the bounds of obstinacy well beyond anything that is conceivable to other men. He.”

7. “He was a linguist, and therefore he had pushed the bounds of obstinacy well beyond anything that is conceivable to other men. He.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.”

8. “If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “His youngest sister, Linda, wanted to be a singer and she had now refused point-blank to go to secretarial college; his father had refused pointblank to let her study music. Linda had gone to the piano and begun to play Chopin’s Prelude No. 24 in D minor, a bitter piece of music which gains in tragic intensity when played 40 times in a row.”

9. “His youngest sister, Linda, wanted to be a singer and she had now refused point-blank to go to secretarial college; his father had refused pointblank to let her study music. Linda had gone to the piano and begun to play Chopin’s Prelude No. 24 in D minor, a bitter piece of music which gains in tragic intensity when played 40 times in a row.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “I didn’t want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.”

10. “I didn’t want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all you get is people pusillanimously Favoriting and Liking and Friending. Why is there no Hate button? Why?”

11. “The typical review makes a Teletubby look like a sabre-toothed tiger. You can economize by reading online rather than squandering $4.95, yes, but all you get is people pusillanimously Favoriting and Liking and Friending. Why is there no Hate button? Why?”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of...”

12. “He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of...”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “When you play a piece of music there are so many different ways you could play it. You keep asking yourself what if. You try this and you say what if and you try that. When you buy a CD you get one answer to the question. You never get the what if.”

13. “When you play a piece of music there are so many different ways you could play it. You keep asking yourself what if. You try this and you say what if and you try that. When you buy a CD you get one answer to the question. You never get the what if.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “Yamamoto said he thought you had to be able to hear how something did not work as part of a bigger thing to hear how it did and it was precisely because people couldn’t hear that that they were willing to let movements be taken out of pieces.”

14. “Yamamoto said he thought you had to be able to hear how something did not work as part of a bigger thing to hear how it did and it was precisely because people couldn’t hear that that they were willing to let movements be taken out of pieces.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.”

15. “Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time than by being right at the wrong time.”

16. “Truth be told, you can make a hell of a lot more money by being wrong at the right time than by being right at the wrong time.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “There were all these conservative colors that you don’t see any more, this navy blue, navy blue is the hardest color to match so it dates really obviously because the idea people have in their head of a dark neutral blue changes over the years, people in the fashion industry, the way they perceive a dark blue is affected by the other colors they are working with at the time.”

17. “There were all these conservative colors that you don’t see any more, this navy blue, navy blue is the hardest color to match so it dates really obviously because the idea people have in their head of a dark neutral blue changes over the years, people in the fashion industry, the way they perceive a dark blue is affected by the other colors they are working with at the time.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “Essentially the film is about the importance of rational thought. We should draw our conclusions from the evidence available rather than from hearsay and try not to be influenced by our preconceptions. We should strive to see what we can see for ourselves rather than what we would like to see.”

18. “Essentially the film is about the importance of rational thought. We should draw our conclusions from the evidence available rather than from hearsay and try not to be influenced by our preconceptions. We should strive to see what we can see for ourselves rather than what we would like to see.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.”

19. “There is a character in The Count of Monte Cristo who digs through solid rock for years and finally gets somewhere: he finds himself in another cell. It was that kind of moment.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “People who generalise about people are dismissed as superficial. It’s only when you’ve known large numbers of people that you can spot the unusual ones – when you look at each one as if you’d never seen one before, they all look alike.”

20. “People who generalise about people are dismissed as superficial. It’s only when you’ve known large numbers of people that you can spot the unusual ones – when you look at each one as if you’d never seen one before, they all look alike.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “In a less barbarous society children would not be in absolute economic subjection to the irrational beings into whose keeping fate has consigned them: they would be paid a decent hourly wage for attending school. As we don’t live in that enlightened society any adult, and especially a parent, has a terrible power over a child – how could I give that power to a man who – sometimes I thought I could and once I even picked up the phone but when I thought about it I just couldn’t. I.”

21. “In a less barbarous society children would not be in absolute economic subjection to the irrational beings into whose keeping fate has consigned them: they would be paid a decent hourly wage for attending school. As we don’t live in that enlightened society any adult, and especially a parent, has a terrible power over a child – how could I give that power to a man who – sometimes I thought I could and once I even picked up the phone but when I thought about it I just couldn’t. I.”

— Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt Quote: “I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I’d spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best on offer.”

22. “I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I’d spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best on offer.”

— Helen DeWitt

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