--- title: "Best Donald E. Westlake Quotes" description: "Donald Westlake was an American writer who authored over one hundred novels and non‑fiction books. Browse 113 Donald E. Westlake quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-e-westlake-29972.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-e-westlake-29972.jpg) # Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008) Writer United States **113** quotes in **461** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Donald E. Westlake was a writer from the United States, best known for *The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback)*. ## Quick Facts About Donald E. Westlake Born July 12, 1933 Died December 31, 2008 Nationality United States Profession Writer Notable works The Hunter (aka Point Blank and Payback) Known for The Grifters, The Hunter Spouse Q66591887 ## About Donald E. Westlake He mainly wrote crime fiction, especially comic capers, and sometimes wrote science‑fiction and other types of stories. Westlake created two long‑running series featuring professional criminals: the hard‑boiled Parker and the more humorous John Dortmunder. ## Awards & Honors Shamus Award Gumshoe Awards Edgar Awards ## Quotes by Donald E. Westlake · Page 2 > [“If buyer’s remorse ever accomplished anything in this world,” Max said, “we’d all still be living in caves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/if-buyer-s-remorse-ever-accomplished-anything-in-this-world-max-said/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Remorse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/remorse/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b00/donald-e-westlake-4285_quote_if-buyer-s-remorse-ever-accomplished-any_1452700.jpg) > [In a funny way, the stories keep themselves alive by emerging from one another. I like that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/in-a-funny-way-the-stories-keep-themselves-alive-by-emerging-from-one/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Emerging](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/emerging/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c61/donald-e-westlake-4285_emerging_in-a-funny-way-the-stories-keep-themselv_2823630.jpg) > [Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/whenever-things-sound-easy-it-turns-out-there-s-one-part-you-didn-t/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/donald-e-westlake-4285_art_whenever-things-sound-easy-it-turns-out_1222024.jpg) > [“Probably nobody ever jogs toward the room where they will write their suicide note,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/probably-nobody-ever-jogs-toward-the-room-where-they-will-write-their/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Suicide](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/suicide/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef1/donald-e-westlake-4285_suicide_probably-nobody-ever-jogs-toward-the-roo_1713459.jpg) > [Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/westlake-is-allusive-indirect-referential-a-bit-rococo-stark-strips/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [His](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/his/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/091/donald-e-westlake-4285_his_westlake-is-allusive-indirect-referentia_1811662.jpg) > [What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/what-did-jesus-christ-say-to-the-teamsters-do-nothing-till-i-get-back/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Christ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christ/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d17/donald-e-westlake-4285_christ_what-did-jesus-christ-say-to-the-teamste_266142.jpg) > [All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/all-of-the-changes-in-publishing-since-1960-are-significant-there-are/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [1960s](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/zz-1960s-426/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01c/donald-e-westlake-4285_1960s_all-of-the-changes-in-publishing-since-1_3194511.jpg) > [With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/with-writing-i-prefer-the-solo-effort-but-when-a-team-is-working/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Effort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effort/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab3/donald-e-westlake-4285_effort_with-writing-i-prefer-the-solo-effort-bu_2154579.jpg) > [“In the cab going downtown, Doug believed he now understood the sensations felt by a person slowly sinking into the grasp of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/in-the-cab-going-downtown-doug-believed-he-now-understood-the/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Sensations Felt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sensations-felt-1699988/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d82/donald-e-westlake-4285_sensations-felt_in-the-cab-going-downtown-doug-believed_235850.jpg) > [What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/what-advice-i-would-give-to-anybody-about-anything-life-is-a-slow/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Advice](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advice/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2b/donald-e-westlake-4285_advice_what-advice-i-would-give-to-anybody-abou_2058521.jpg) > [Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/nothing-about-it-interested-me-or-about-anything-else-except-making/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Drains](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/drains/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/590/donald-e-westlake-4285_drains_nothing-about-it-interested-me-or-about_458036.jpg) > [I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/i-start-with-the-story-almost-in-the-old-campfire-sense-and-the-story/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Actor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/actor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0b/donald-e-westlake-4285_actors_i-start-with-the-story-almost-in-the-old_1600395.jpg) > [The fictioneer labors under the constraint of plausibility; his inventions must stay within the capacity of the audience to accept and believe.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/the-fictioneer-labors-under-the-constraint-of-plausibility-his/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Accepting](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/accepting/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d4/donald-e-westlake-4285_accepting_the-fictioneer-labors-under-the-constrai_919554.jpg) > [“wish you would.” “Right. When I had the emerald again, I was in a cell. I guess they were afraid the rest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/wish-you-would-right-when-i-had-the-emerald-again-i-was-in-a-cell-i/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Afraid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/afraid/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05c/donald-e-westlake-4285_afraid_wish-you-would-right-when-i-had-the-emer_544418.jpg) > [Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/nobody-gets-everything-in-this-life-you-decide-your-priorities-and/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Cake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cake/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b6/donald-e-westlake-4285_cake_nobody-gets-everything-in-this-life-you_2126634.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/when-stark-isn-t-off-sulking-somewhere-or-whatever-he-s-doing-when-he/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Guy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/guy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/396/donald-e-westlake-4285_guy_when-stark-isn-t-off-sulking-somewhere-o_485557.jpg) > [“now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/now-he-was-requesting-as-much-microfilm-as-the-librarians-would-let/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Computers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/computers/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/724/donald-e-westlake-4285_computers_now-he-was-requesting-as-much-microfilm_2500168.jpg) > [For a long while, I found Parker impossible. He went away for 23 years. I tried to bring him back a few…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/for-a-long-while-i-found-parker-impossible-he-went-away-for-23-years/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Impossible](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/impossible/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3d0/donald-e-westlake-4285_impossible_for-a-long-while-i-found-parker-impossib_3143617.jpg) > [Years ago, I heard an interview with violinist Yehudi Menuhin. The interviewer said, "Do you still practice?" And he said, "I practice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/years-ago-i-heard-an-interview-with-violinist-yehudi-menuhin-the/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Audience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/audience/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50d/donald-e-westlake-4285_audience_years-ago-i-heard-an-interview-with-viol_2676527.jpg) > [In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/in-the-first-batch-of-readers-back-in-the-60s-and-70s-the-criminal/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Bank robbery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bank-robbery/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/863/donald-e-westlake-4285_bank-robbery_in-the-first-batch-of-readers-back-in-th_3099886.jpg) > [The other thing that I got back then - the Parker novels have never had much of anything to do with race.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/the-other-thing-that-i-got-back-then-the-parker-novels-have-never-had/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/black/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b7/donald-e-westlake-4285_black_the-other-thing-that-i-got-back-then-the_37835.jpg) > [“May knew John had a very bad tendency, when things got unusually difficult, to sink with an almost sensuous pleasure into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/may-knew-john-had-a-very-bad-tendency-when-things-got-unusually/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Despair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/despair/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/822/donald-e-westlake-4285_quote_may-knew-john-had-a-very-bad-tendency-wh_1399653.jpg) > [Science fiction is a weird category, because it's the only area of fiction I can think of where the story is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/science-fiction-is-a-weird-category-because-it-s-the-only-area-of/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Allegory](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/allegory/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a8/donald-e-westlake-4285_allegory_science-fiction-is-a-weird-category-beca_25993.jpg) > [“(Novelists, when their characters drive cars, never feel compelled to describe precisely what the physical actions are of hands, feet, eyes, knees,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/novelists-when-their-characters-drive-cars-never-feel-compelled-to/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Driving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/driving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6de/donald-e-westlake-4285_driving_novelists-when-their-characters-drive-ca_1618719.jpg) > [“Mr. Dortmunder, this is too good a story to just jump in and tell the end.” Dortmunder hated stories that were that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/mr-dortmunder-this-is-too-good-a-story-to-just-jump-in-and-tell-the/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Story](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/story/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1df/donald-e-westlake-4285_quote_mr-dortmunder-this-is-too-good-a-story-t_1039040.jpg) > [If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/if-chester-had-a-failing-it-was-that-he-believed-people-were-what/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Chester](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chester/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/donald-e-westlake-4285_failing_if-chester-had-a-failing-it-was-that-he_945469.jpg) > [In order to hold your faith intact be sure it's kept unsullied by fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/in-order-to-hold-your-faith-intact-be-sure-it-s-kept-unsullied-by-fact/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Facts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/facts/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea3/donald-e-westlake-4285_facts_in-order-to-hold-your-faith-intact-be-su_2703138.jpg) > [Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/hoke-moseley-is-a-magnificently-battered-hero-willeford-brings-him-to/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Battered](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/battered/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f11/donald-e-westlake-4285_battered_hoke-moseley-is-a-magnificently-battered_2308733.jpg) > [“There were other ways to live. You could do something else, if you wanted. And if you had a reason.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/there-were-other-ways-to-live-you-could-do-something-else-if-you/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Live](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/live/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e9/donald-e-westlake-4285_live_there-were-other-ways-to-live-you-could_2286312.jpg) > [“had been happy to play the part of a Brontë heroine if it meant she wouldn’t have to learn how to cook.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/had-been-happy-to-play-the-part-of-a-bront-heroine-if-it-meant-she/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Heroine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/heroine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1e9/donald-e-westlake-4285_quote_had-been-happy-to-play-the-part-of-a-bro_1584534.jpg) > [Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/everybody-in-new-york-is-looking-for-something-once-in-a-while/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Looking](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/looking/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86c/donald-e-westlake-4285_new-york_everybody-in-new-york-is-looking-for-som_1384246.jpg) > [Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/christmas-shows-us-the-ties-that-bind-us-together-threads-of-love-and/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Caring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/caring/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/donald-e-westlake-4285_caring_christmas-shows-us-the-ties-that-bind-us_2084926.jpg) > [“You wanna know what’s happening to New York?” he asked. “I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/you-wanna-know-what-s-happening-to-new-york-he-asked-i-tell-you-what/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Science](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/science/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a4/donald-e-westlake-4285_science_you-wanna-know-what-s-happening-to-new-y_2756157.jpg) > [As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/as-we-struggle-with-shopping-lists-and-invitations-compounded-by/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Aggravation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aggravation/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/672/donald-e-westlake-4285_aggravation_as-we-struggle-with-shopping-lists-and-i_1735119.jpg) > [I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/i-loved-it-but-social-reality-impeded-now-i-wander-in-here-at-9-in/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Afternoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/afternoon/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/577/donald-e-westlake-4285_afternoon_i-loved-it-but-social-reality-impeded-no_3175930.jpg) > [“Dortmunder followed Kelp as he carried the tray down along the bar past the regulars, where the third was now saying, “The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/dortmunder-followed-kelp-as-he-carried-the-tray-down-along-the-bar/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Flat tax](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flat-tax/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a8a/donald-e-westlake-4285_flat-tax_dortmunder-followed-kelp-as-he-carried-t_444162.jpg) > [Writing is flat, so if you only have part of one eye working, you still can do the job. It's just that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/writing-is-flat-so-if-you-only-have-part-of-one-eye-working-you-still/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Eye](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eye/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba7/donald-e-westlake-4285_eye_writing-is-flat-so-if-you-only-have-part_713650.jpg) > [The critics didn't like it at all. They felt it was crude and violent without meaning, and they dumped on it. 'Point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/the-critics-didn-t-like-it-at-all-they-felt-it-was-crude-and-violent/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Film](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/film/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be7/donald-e-westlake-4285_i-think_the-critics-didn-t-like-it-at-all-they-f_1129929.jpg) > [The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/the-thing-that-i-prefer-when-i-m-working-on-a-book-is-to-do-a-seven/) [Donald E. Westlake](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-e-westlake/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c4/donald-e-westlake-4285_book_the-thing-that-i-prefer-when-i-m-working_2377339.jpg) > [It's so difficult, particularly with an antisocial character. It's much easier if he's already a blank page, but once you've written on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-e-westlake/it-s-so-difficult-particularly-with-an-antisocial-character-it-s-much/) [Donald E. 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