Kevin Patterson Quotes

• Medicine and writing are natural companions.

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

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• Storms are s*x. They exist alongside and are indifferent to words and description and dissection.

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• Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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Kevin Patterson (9)

Birth:	27th December, 1964
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Doctor, Writer

About

Kevin Patterson is a Canadian medical doctor and writer. His short story collection, Country of Cold, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003. His latest book, Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of its Participants, published in 2008, is a collection of first-hand accounts written by soldiers, doctors and aid workers on the front lines of Canada’s war in Afghanistan.

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