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Quotes by "Donald E. Westlake"

Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.
— Donald E. Westlake Two Much
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
Tags: language, feeling, words, best
I also wanted Parker to operate in the Internet age without losing being Parker. He's 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
Tags: rest, internet, world, age
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
Tags: reality, boss, i-am, morning
The tortured similes, the brooding introspection, the jaundiced view of society - nobody ever has any fun in a Ross Macdonald book.
— Donald E. Westlake
Tags: book, view, fun, society
A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence on writing style. I was completely in love with the way the man wrote.
— Donald E. Westlake
Tags: gold, style, man, love
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