If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I'm one of the narrative-push people. I don't outline, I don't plan ahead. So I'm my first reader, telling myself the story… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I've had stuff of mine adapted by other people, so I've come to the conclusion that a movie is a different form… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I know people who have suffered writer's block, and I don't think I've ever had it. A friend of mine, for three… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The British were doing crime stories first, but the British thing is a very different thing. There, the stories are about restoring… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not of primary… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
The other thing that I got back then - the Parker novels have never had much of anything to do with race. There have… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I was writing everything. I grew up in Albany, New York, and I was never any farther west than Syracuse, and I wrote Westerns.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some of them… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of an octopus.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back. — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Since he’d been born rich into a family that had been a long time rich, he’d never known the need to suppress his feelings,… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Well, you might not think it to look at me,” Dortmunder told him, “but I got a family crest.” “Have you?” “Yeah. And it’s… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“telling the jokes—was the setups. Why were that priest, that rabbi, and that minister walking down that street? Where were they headed? How had… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“Dortmunder followed Kelp as he carried the tray down along the bar past the regulars, where the third was now saying, “The idea of… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be.… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
When Stark isn't off sulking somewhere, or whatever he's doing when he won't return my calls, I alternate between the two. That usually works… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
