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Donald E. Westlake has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating with great…
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In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender, or their…
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Hoke Moseley is a magnificently battered hero. Willeford brings him to us lean and hard and brand-new.
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Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what…
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Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
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Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so…
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Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
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I loved it, but social reality impeded. Now I wander in here at 9 in the morning or so, and come back…
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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink…
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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…
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Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You…
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The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers,…
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I never act my characters - I am them.
— Drew Barrymore
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
— Guy Finley
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You must have absolute faith in your own perceptions of truth. Never act in haste or hurry; be deliberated in everything; wait…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Never act until you have clearly answered the question: "What happens if I do nothing?"
— Robert Breault
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Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the…
— Jim Rogers
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Similarly, knowledge of the future was incompatible with free will. What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also…
— Ted Chiang
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But if we never acted except when we were certain our motives were pure, we would never act at all.
— C.J. Sansom
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Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
— Jim Elliot
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
— Henry Iba
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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and…
— F B Meyer
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
— Willem Dafoe
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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink…
— Donald E. Westlake
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