4 Quotes & Sayings By Helen Dewitt

Helen DeWitt is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Last Samurai, winner of the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and Things You Should Not Have Seen, also a finalist for the 2006 PEN/Faulkner Award. She teaches in the creative writing program at Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in New York.

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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
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The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower. Helen DeWitt
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Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away. Helen DeWitt