Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The best of Donald Westlake's pseudonymous thrillers about Parker, the toughest burglar who ever lived. . . .Out of print for years… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.” — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's standing in… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it easy to… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew to pay… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short. — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or whatever concept… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle. These tend… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You wouldn't go… — Terry Teachout Copy Share Image
