"My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she……" — Donald E. Westlake
"My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up."
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31 Quotes by Donald E. Westlake
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Publishing is the only industry I can think of where most of the employees spend most of their time stating…
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In the most basic way, writers are defined not by the stories they tell, or their politics, or their gender,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character,…
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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…
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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…
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The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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