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Donald E Westlake Quotes
A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
But the small robbery, by forcing an upgrade of defensive systems, makes the big robbery that much harder, or perhaps impossible. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. Hes always operated in the world without really being with the world, and cyberspace means that the rest of us are more and more living the same way. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I dont do anything about maintaining quality, I just try to tell a story in such a way as to interest myself. I leave questions of quality to others. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I dont know that any one book was of larger than normal significance in my career. My method has been more like water torture, one drop at a time. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I find characters who are at cross-purposes with society, or opposed to society in some way, interesting because they are by definition the underdogs. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back for a while in the afternoon. I am a very lenient boss. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
I used to be less flexible, but realized there was no point pushing myself, I was going to do it whether I cracked a whip over me or not. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
If it werent for received ideas, the publishing industry wouldnt have any ideas at all. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Meehan evolved into his story. If you think of Parker as fast like a baseball or football player, Meehan is fast like a standup comic. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
My father wanted me to be an architect. The one thing I learned was that the kitchen and bathroom should be near each other, to simplify the plumbing. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, Im flexible on hours and output. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy werent so nearly universal, God knows what Id be. A drain on the State, I shouldnt wonder. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, dont exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
The problem was, he had to resolve, one way or another. If he got over the trauma, hed become just another private eye, and I couldnt use him. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
When Stark isnt off sulking somewhere, or whatever hes doing when he wont return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works well, though occasionally an idea for the wrong guy drifts through my mind. - Donald E Westlake Quotes
Whos a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? - Donald E Westlake Quotes
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1960 Bank Changes Farewell Fewer Four Friend
Impossible Interview Jobs Last Major Makes Mine
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That Then There Years
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