Behavior Quote by Donald E. Westlake

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

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

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

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

“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

What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back.

— Donald E. Westlake

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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